Lesya Leshchenko16:09, 22.07.26
According to the expert, the strikes on Wildberries warehouses are 40% military in nature, and 60% civilian and political in nature.
Ukraine is increasingly actively striking large logistics warehouses in the rear of the Russian Federation with long-range drones , such as Wildberries. This is an attempt to use civilians to put pressure on the top political leadership of the Russian Federation to end the war. Ivan Stupak, a military expert and former SBU employee, said this in a comment to UNIAN.
“A huge amount of military goods passes through Wildberries or through their warehouses. Not shells, not missiles, but fiber optics, optics, armor, medical kits, repair kits, spare parts for drones – that is, everything that goes to the front,” he said.
According to the expert, the strikes on Wildberries warehouses are 40% military in purpose, and 60% civilian and political: to put pressure on the higher political leadership of the Russian Federation through Russian civilians.
“Because, as it turned out, a huge number of business owners on Wildberries had no idea what had been happening for the last four and a half years. It somehow didn’t concern them. We see: some marketplace, warehouses burned down. As of today, 750,000 square meters of warehouses operated by Wildberries have burned down. The first to suffer from this explosive wave are the owners of the goods that were stored there. It doesn’t matter whether it’s military goods, cosmetics, fur coats, or something else. Business owners suffer first,” Stupak explained.
The second, as the expert continued, is that the owners of the marketplace buildings are the ones who suffer from this explosive wave. After all, the warehouses do not belong directly to Wildberries: they are a separate type of business – companies build them, and then Wildberries leases them. That is, investors suffer.
“The third ones to suffer from this are the banks and other financial institutions in Russia that financed the construction of these warehouses. This is not just a box with an area of 100,000 square meters, but a huge complex structure where people work and goods are constantly moved. It can cost tens of millions of dollars. Fourthly, this affects, of course, Wildberries, which loses operating profit. That is, the company does not make money here. I know that the maximum profit it received last year was about $ 2 billion. And this year the estimated losses are about $ 2.5 billion,” he noted.
At the same time, as Stupak noted, the more Ukraine attacks Russian logistics, warehouses, and capacities, the more Ukrainian companies may suffer.
“This is “Rozetka”, “Nova Poshta”. I don’t know what they are spending on restoring the lost sorting centers and branches. These are millions of dollars. And we understand that sooner or later they will either not be able to restore and will be forced to close, or they will significantly increase the cost of their services to somehow compensate for the losses. And that will be normal,” he said.
In addition, according to him, if we deprive a huge number of people in the Russian Federation of their businesses and, let’s say, they have nothing to eat, this could provoke protests against the Russian authorities or, conversely, they will go to war.
“They can sign up for war out of desperation, saying that everything is fine, there is nothing, and the only source of money is the Russian state. I am sure that Ukrainian cyber experts and Ukrainian trolls on social networks should work very actively in the information space of the Russian Federation and show who is to blame. The Russian authorities are to blame, who did not protect you and unleashed this war. The only way to make sure that you do not suffer anymore is to stop the war. The logic is simple: there is no war – you no longer lose business and are not begging. Therefore, such work in social networks and the Internet must be carried out,” Stupak summed up.
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