Wildberries, Russia’s largest online retailer, promises payments to sellers after Ukrainian strikes on its warehouses
Wildberries has developed a support package for sellers whose merchandise burned in Ukrainian drone strikes on the marketplace’s warehouses, according to the Russian Telegram channel Ostorozhno, Novosti.
The outlet reported that Wildberries’ press service “promised to pay for goods lost in the damaged warehouses.” The company did not specify how it would calculate the payments or when it would transfer the money, saying only that this would happen “as soon as possible.”
The package included discounted storage, deferred loan payments, and reduced logistics costs for sellers.
After the first Ukrainian strike on Wildberries warehouses in the Moscow and Tambov regions, experts estimated the value of sellers’ inventory stored there at 150 billion to 235 billion rubles — comparable to Wildberries’ annual net profit.
Wildberries was not formally obligated to compensate sellers for the damage. In early July, the company changed the terms of its seller agreement, classifying drone attacks as “force majeure.”
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