Russia’s trade ministry says not all marketplace warehouses damaged in Ukrainian drone strikes need to be rebuilt
Russian authorities and marketplace operators plan to decide by the end of 2026 whether every logistics complex damaged in Ukrainian drone strikes needs to be rebuilt, the Russian state news agency TASS reported.
It’s still too early to say that a full “hundred percent restoration of exactly the same logistics centers that existed” is needed, said Roman Chekushov, deputy head of the Industry and Trade Ministry:
By the end of the year, we will understand how logistics will be restructured, what the scope of the damage is, and whether government involvement in the rebuilding will be needed. If any restoration of certain logistics capacities will be needed at all.
Ukraine has repeatedly attacked Wildberries’s largest warehouses across Russia with drones since mid-June. Drones later began striking warehouses belonging to another marketplace, Ozon.
By early August, the damage to Wildberries and its sellers from the drone strikes was estimated at hundreds of billions of rubles.
In late August, Russia’s government approved support measures — including a tax deferral — for both the Wildberries sellers affected by the warehouse strikes and the marketplace itself.
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