Despite Ukrainian strikes, Russian online marketplaces Ozon and Wildberries are still selling supplies for Russia’s military. Here’s what we found.

In early August, amid a wave of strikes on Wildberries warehouses, we looked into what goods are being ordered for the Russian army on Russian online marketplaces. It turned out that almost anything is available there, including body bags for the dead. At that time, Ukraine had not yet struck Ozon’s facilities, which fueled conspiracy theories. In the second half of August, however, Ukraine’s armed forces began hitting that company’s warehouses as well. Meduza decided to check whether the marketplaces are still selling goods that end up going to the front. Here’s what we found.

What exactly we checked

A month ago, Meduza reviewed posts in 71 Telegram channels and six VKontakte communities that raise donations for Russian soldiers. The channels’ authors often specify exactly what they’re raising money for, and sometimes post direct links to items for sale.

Those posts contained 3,709 direct links to Wildberries. Volunteers supplying the Russian army ordered both “civilian” items, such as food or clothing, and gear clearly intended for military use at the front, including body armor and drone components.

Volunteers used Ozon almost as actively: the posts contained 3,609 links and 1,025 different product listings, including similar drone components. Volodymyr Zelensky has officially cited that role in supplying drone components as the reason for the strikes on Wildberries warehouses.

Yet no targeted strikes hit Ozon facilities before August 22. By September 1, however, the strikes had become systematic.

The first target was a logistics center in Chapaevsk, in Samara region. The next day, drones hit a center in Orenburg, forcing the evacuation of more than 300 employees. On August 24, Ozon reported strikes on four more facilities: in Enem (Krasnodar Krai), Makhachkala, Adygeysk, and Nevinnomyssk (Stavropol region). Overnight on August 27, drones again struck the Orenburg facility, along with a warehouse in Ufa. Overnight on August 29, Ukrainian drones struck an Ozon logistics site in Rostov region. The following day, a strike on Belgorod damaged an Ozon sorting center and delivery hub.

After the initial strikes on the marketplace’s facilities, Ukraine’s Defense Ministry announced that now it was “Ozon’s turn,” calling the strikes themselves “long-range sanctions.” The ministry called the strikes part of a campaign against “storage centers for dual-use goods,” meant to disrupt supplies to the Russian army while also damaging the Russian economy.

What’s still for sale on Ozon: drone drop systems, exoskeletons, and body armor

After Ukraine began striking Ozon, we rechecked every link to the marketplace that had appeared in the channels and communities of pro-Russian volunteers. We found 604 of the 1,025 items still available for purchase.

Another 313 listings remain on the marketplace, though Ozon marks them as temporarily out of stock. For 29 items, delivery is unavailable to any of the 25 Russian cities we checked. Seventy-nine listings have been removed entirely.

Among the 1,000 items, we separately identified 51 whose Ozon descriptions explicitly mention military or tactical use. Of those, 29 remain for sale, 13 are out of stock, two are unavailable for delivery, and six have been removed.

Ozon still sells the Exorise “Muravei” (“Ant”) assault exoskeleton for about 54,000 rubles. Also still available is an FPV video receiver for 7,500 rubles, a device that receives a real-time video feed from a drone; through it, the operator sees the picture from the onboard camera and can fly the drone “first-person.” The seller’s listing states outright that the device is well suited for use in the “SVO.”

Also still available is a cargo drop system for drones for about 5,000 rubles (Z-volunteers have ordered it along with other drone accessories). These devices let users attach a small payload to a drone and release it at a chosen point; at the front, they can be used both to deliver supplies and to drop munitions. In reviews on Ozon, buyers note: “Works great, the little bombs are falling.”

Also still on the marketplace is a magazine for the Makarov pistol. The listing describes it as “combat” and “standard-issue.” It costs about 2,200 rubles and appeared on one of the lists of items needed by Russian soldiers.

Other listings are directly tied to weapons and gear as well.

For example, a handguard for the AK-12, AK-15, and TR-3 carbine is for sale; it covers the front part of the weapon, helps with grip, and allows attachments like grips, flashlights, and other accessories. A carrier for the 6B45 combined-arms body armor, which volunteers bought for naval infantry, is also available. This is the base of the body armor into which protective plates and anti-fragmentation panels are inserted. The empty carrier alone does not stop bullets. One buyer left this review on the product page: “We’ll test it in the SVO, I’ll follow up.”

Another item still available is an “anti-drone” blanket. According to the seller, it helps soldiers become less visible to drones. Volunteers have noted that they receive many requests for these blankets from service members.

On the blanket’s page, one buyer wrote: “Ordered for the fighters in the SVO… I hope they save someone’s lives.” Another reviewer said the blankets “were sent as humanitarian aid to the SVO zone,” and another user said her husband loved the blanket and that “it’s badly needed in the SVO right now.”

What was removed? (Almost nothing)

There’s no sign that Ozon has fully removed so-called dual-use goods (meaning items that can be used for both civilian and military purposes). Nor does Ozon publicly disclose who removed each listing, the seller or the marketplace itself, so the reasons could vary widely, up to and including the possibility that an item burned in one of the attacked warehouses.

By the end of August, only 79 of the 1,025 previously identified items ordered for Russian soldiers had disappeared from the marketplace entirely, about 8% of the sample. Most of the vanished items were entirely “civilian”: specific brands of coffee, sugar, and buckwheat, shovels, underwear, toilet paper, tires, and even an electric wheelchair.

However, 22 of the vanished items were more clearly tied to use in the war. Among other things, the following specific listings disappeared: muzzle attachments for assault rifles (designed for firing at drones); the “MRAK” drop system and batteries for drones (volunteers wrote that they were needed so drones could fly “farther, longer, and actively destroy the enemy”); ceramic plates for body armor; and a digital radio with encryption (bought for Russian assault troops).

The listing for a perimeter alarm device also disappeared. Volunteers ordered 10 of these devices for a special unit engaged in “counter-sabotage operations” in the Belgorod direction. According to the fundraiser’s organizers, the alarm system was meant to warn soldiers of an approaching enemy.

Even so, equivalents (including exact ones) of most of the vanished items are still available on Ozon from other sellers. So it’s clear the marketplace did not deliberately remove these listings.

Moreover, some sellers of “military” goods on Ozon already announced sales during the warehouse strikes. One explained that they were cutting prices because they’d rather “sell [the goods] for next to nothing than have them go up in smoke.”

Volunteers also keep using the marketplaces

We checked posts in the same channels and communities through August 24 and found 34 new fundraisers. Thirty of them contained links to Ozon, for a total of 197 listings.

One recent fundraiser asked for two packs of 50 tourniquets each for a medical evacuation team. For mobile fire teams that, according to volunteers, protect front-line roads from drones, organizers are asking for 10 tablets. The screens are meant to display thermal-imaging footage, letting the crew see a fuller picture and track aerial targets longer.

Another channel was raising money for two 3D printers (33,000 rubles each) and a filament dryer. The equipment was intended for the workshop of the “SVO Museum,” which prints parts for the front, including for units that work with drones.

Drone components themselves also keep showing up in recent fundraisers. For example, for a group of soldiers with the call sign “Lis” (“Fox”), organizers asked for a Walksnail Avatar HD video kit, which transmits a live feed from the drone’s camera to the operator; a video receiver to pick up that signal; a three-axis gimbal to stabilize and rotate the camera; and an ELRS receiver through which the drone gets its control commands.

The marketplace is also still used to buy food and clothing for soldiers. Throughout August 2026, one channel repeatedly updated its shopping list of food for assault units near Kupyansk (the same town Russia’s Defense Ministry long ago officially declared “captured”). The cart included coffee, tea, nuts, and packs of Snickers bars. Another fundraiser asked for single-serving packets of ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise, jam, condensed milk, honey, and caramel.

On Wildberries, the picture is about the same. ‘Military’ goods remain for sale.

By the end of August, of the 1,616 Wildberries listings linked to in volunteer fundraisers, 785, almost half, remained for sale. Another 621 pages could still be opened, but the item was marked as sold out. Of the 210 links that wouldn’t open, 194 still had their name and other technical data in Wildberries’ system, while only 16 listings had disappeared completely.

As with Ozon, there’s no way to determine from public data whether the seller or the marketplace itself removed a given item.

But there’s no sign that Wildberries has fully removed its “military” assortment either. For example, a Yamal-601 satellite internet kit remains for sale for about 275,000 rubles. The seller describes it outright as “suitable for the SVO.” In reviews, buyers write: “The soldiers are happy,” “Thanks from the guys in the SVO zone,” and “Used in the SVO.”

You can also order an exoskeleton for about 55,000 rubles (here’s the volunteer fundraiser for it), body armor with plates for almost 30,000 (fundraiser), an “anti-drone” blanket for 16,700 (fundraiser), a drone battery for 26,700 (fundraiser), and a night-vision device for about 6,000 rubles (fundraiser).

At the same time, pages for a 60-round magazine for the AK-74, active shooting earmuffs, and a few other items won’t open. But this looks like ordinary turnover in the product lineup. A significant portion of “military” goods on Wildberries are still sold quite openly, with sellers stating as much directly in the product descriptions.

Drone strikes are costing marketplaces market value. Still, they’ve probably made a good profit during the war.

The warehouse strikes hit Ozon’s stock price directly. A single share of the marketplace cost 2,979 rubles on the eve of the first strike, August 21. In the first trading session after the series of strikes, the price fell to 2,112.5 rubles, and by midday on August 28 it stood at about 2,207 rubles, 26% lower than before the strikes. According to data from the Moscow Exchange, Ozon’s market capitalization fell by roughly 26% over that period, from 645 billion to 475 billion rubles. This is not a direct loss for the company but a shift in how investors value it. Ozon has not yet disclosed the cost of the damaged facilities and goods.

The largest stake in Ozon, 34.95%, belongs to entities linked to investor Alexander Chachava. The Anti-Corruption Foundation claims that the money used to buy it came through a loan of 51.23 billion rubles from a company tied to Gennady Timchenko, a billionaire very close to Putin. Investigators believe the stake may have been purchased in the interests of Putin’s inner circle.

Wildberries has no shares on any exchange (it’s a private company), so its value can’t be tracked the same way. According to a recent ranking by the Russian business magazine Forbes Russia, Tatyana Kim’s fortune fell from $7.1 billion to $5 billion over the past year. But those $2.1 billion can’t be counted as losses from the strikes: the valuation was recorded on July 18, when the strikes had only just begun. The potential damage to Wildberries itself and to the sellers who stored goods there was estimated at up to 878 billion rubles as of mid-August, though the company never confirmed that figure.

It’s nearly impossible to estimate how much the marketplaces have earned during the war. Volunteer fundraisers with direct links to products are a tiny fraction of the overall flow of orders for “military” goods.

Some sense of the scale can be gleaned indirectly from calculations by Verstka, an independent Russian news outlet that gained access to Ozon’s internal analytics data. The outlet’s journalists found 33 categories of goods that could be used at the front. In just one year, marketplace users ordered more than 2 million units of these goods, worth a combined 25 billion rubles.

Representatives of Ozon and Wildberries did not respond to Meduza’s requests for comment by the time this article was published.