Putin Commented For The First Time On Ukraine's Strikes On Wildberries Warehouses
- 19.08.2026, 19:04
The Ukrainian Armed Forces have been destroying warehouses for a month now.
Vladimir Putin has instructed the government to prepare a program to restore logistics hubs damaged by strikes from the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He issued this directive at a meeting of the Council for Strategic Development and National Projects, according to Interfax.
“Logistics and warehousing facilities certainly require restoration, including with state participation… At the same time, we must take into account that the restoration of damaged facilities must be carried out at a qualitatively new technological level,” Putin noted.
In his view, despite the recent attacks, Russia’s trade infrastructure “is operating effectively and sustainably”: “Work is certainly being carried out under intense pressure, but everyone working in this sector is fully capable of handling the challenges that the current situation presents.”
Putin did not specify which facilities would need assistance with restoration, but since mid-July, Wildberries’ infrastructure has been the primary target of drone attacks. The Ukrainian Armed Forces’ campaign has affected 23 warehouses belonging to Russia’s largest marketplace, depriving it of a quarter of its total logistics capacity and, taking into account the goods destroyed by fire, causing nearly 1 trillion rubles in damage.
Putin acknowledged that strikes on Russian facilities are harming the economy and affecting growth rates. At the same time, he believes that “there are no critical consequences from such attacks; there haven’t been any, and there cannot be any.”
The Ukrainian Armed Forces began attacking Wildberries warehouses on July 18. At least 12 were either significantly damaged or completely destroyed by fire. Among them are the largest logistics centers in Podolsk and Elektrostal near Moscow, in Novosemeykino in the Samara Region, in Vorsha in the Vladimir Region, in Krasny Bor in the Leningrad Region, and in Aleksin in the Tula Region. Over the course of a month of attacks on Wildberries facilities, at least 14 people were killed and more than 110 were injured.