Wildberries, Russia’s largest online retailer, may have lost the use of 10–15% of its warehouse space to Ukrainian drone strikes, source tells The Bell
Ukrainian drone strikes on Wildberries logistics centers in the Moscow and Tambov regions may have affected roughly 10 to 15 percent of the marketplace’s total warehouse space, a Wildberries source told The Bell. The strikes are unlikely to paralyze the marketplace’s operations, the source said, though they could put serious strain on logistics in the Moscow market — the company’s largest.
Ukrainian drones attacked Wildberries logistics centers in the Moscow-region city of Elektrostal and in Kotovsk, in Russia’s Tambov region, overnight on July 18. Eight people were killed and dozens injured. The extent of damage to the warehouses themselves was not officially reported.
Wildberries CEO Tatyana Kim announced that the company is “working through” the question of payments to sellers who lost goods in the drone strikes. She also reiterated that the marketplace is not obligated to compensate for lost inventory.
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