Burning the Supply Chain: Inside Ukraine’s Drone Campaign Against Russia’s Wildberries

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VORONEZH, Russia — Ukrainian drone strikes ignited massive fires at major Wildberries logistics hubs in Russia's Voronezh and Tula regions in early August 2026, marking a significant expansion of Kyiv's aerial campaign against Russian commercial infrastructure. The latest strike overnight on August 10–11 targeted a newly opened mega-hub in Voronezh Oblast, just days after a similar attack devastated a facility in Aleksin.

The August 11 strike on the 152,900-square-meter Voronezh facility in Aleksandrovka killed one person and injured several others, according to Meduza. Voronezh Governor Alexander Gusev reported that local air defenses intercepted 15 drones, but falling debris triggered fires at two warehouses, as reported by The Moscow Times.

While the e-commerce company's press service initially claimed that most goods were undamaged, independent satellite imagery later analyzed by journalists revealed that approximately 70,000 square meters of the Voronezh facility had burned down, according to LIGA.net.

This followed an overnight strike on August 4–5 that targeted a 194,500-square-meter Wildberries sorting center in Aleksin, Tula Oblast, which Tula Governor Dmitry Milyaev confirmed caused a major fire, as reported by Ukrainska Pravda. Satellite imagery from the European Union's Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite later confirmed near-total destruction of the Aleksin facility, according to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

The strikes are part of a broader, systematic campaign by Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces targeting Wildberries infrastructure across Russia, including sites in Elektrostal, Krasnodar, and Bashkortostan, according to Militarnyi.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and military officials have stated that these logistics hubs are targeted because they are utilized to distribute military equipment, including drone components, tactical gear, and navigation hardware, to Russian forces, as reported by United24 Media.

Robert "Madyar" Brovdi, Commander of Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces, confirmed the Voronezh operation, stating that a "kinetic sandstorm of enhanced combustibility" was delivered to the brand-new hub, according to Kyiv Post.

The destruction of these facilities is expected to disrupt both civilian e-commerce and military supply chains in western Russia, with the two strikes combined affecting billions of rubles worth of goods, according to United24 Media.

Wildberries has announced plans to redirect cargo and adjust logistics routes to alternative hubs to minimize the impact on customers and sellers, as reported by Ukrainska Pravda.

Russian authorities have vowed to strengthen air defenses around key logistics and industrial sites in the western regions bordering Ukraine, according to The Moscow Times.

Independent analysts will continue to monitor satellite imagery of the Voronezh site to determine the full structural impact of the fire as cleanup operations get underway, according to LIGA.net.