August 13, 2026

How many billions of dollars did the company lose after the drone attacks?

Russia’s largest marketplace, Wildberries, has faced massive losses following a series of strikes on its warehouse infrastructure. According to analysts’ estimates, the company has already lost a significant portion of its warehouse capacity, and the value of destroyed goods runs into billions of dollars, reports The Moscow Times.

According to the latest data from analysts at Data Insight, at least 12 large warehouse complexes have been almost completely destroyed. Following the strikes, the company lost about a third of its warehouse capacity.

Sergei Semko of Data Insight told The New York Times that Wildberries has practically no large warehouses left.

Wildberries is Russia’s largest marketplace: the company operates nearly 100,000 pickup points, with annual sales estimated at approximately $74 billion.

Losses on the scale of a Russian region

The scale of the losses can be gauged by comparing them to the budgets of Russian regions. To date, the company’s losses from the attacks amount to about $6 billion, which is roughly equivalent to the annual budget of Krasnoyarsk Krai. Wildberries’ losses are approximately 1.6 times higher than the annual budget of Irkutsk Oblast. For Smolensk or Penza oblasts, this figure is nearly four times greater, and for Kalmykia, the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, or the Nenets Autonomous Okrug, it is 14–17 times higher.

No money, but hang in there

The destruction of goods has affected not only the marketplace’s warehouse capacity but also the sellers whose products were stored there. A Kremlin-linked source told Reuters that the Russian budget lacks the hundreds of billions of rubles needed to provide full-scale support to sellers. Russia’s financial situation is further strained by war expenditures. The federal budget deficit for January–July reached $78 billion, and military spending could exceed the initial plan by 40%.

Context

The Armed Forces of Ukraine are systematically destroying Wildberries warehouses. For instance, on August 7, drones attacked the company’s logistics complex in Yekaterinburg — a city located more than 1,700 km from the border with Ukraine.

A few days later, media reported that following the strikes, sales of military goods on the marketplace plummeted — in just three months, body armor, drones, and other equipment worth 1.646 billion rubles were sold through Wildberries.

The company’s problems are accumulating not only due to the attacks. Russia’s largest state-owned banks — Sber and VTB — are reporting a deterioration in the quality of their loan portfolios, with growing issues among marketplace clients, particularly Wildberries, where an increasing number of borrowers are seeking debt restructuring.

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