Ukrainian drones struck Wildberries logistics centres in Krasnodar and Nevinnomyssk on 22 July 2026, injuring eight people and forcing the evacuation of both facilities, the company's CEO Tatiana Kim confirmed. The strikes come just four days after a previous wave of Ukrainian drone attacks on Wildberries warehouses killed eight night-shift workers.

The 22 July operation hit multiple sites across southern Russia. In Nevinnomyssk, Stavropol Krai, governor Vladimir Vladimirov reported a warehouse complex caught fire on the city's outskirts after a drone impact, with five people receiving medical treatment. In Krasnodar, the regional operational headquarters said three people were wounded when drone debris fell on a Wildberries warehouse, with witnesses describing 20 to 30 explosions during the attack. Separately, one worker was killed in Armavir, a city in Krasnodar Krai, when drone debris struck a site there. Al Jazeera

Russian air defenses reportedly downed 242 drones during the large-scale drone attack on Krasnodar Region, according to TASS, which also reported one person killed and ten injured in that assault. UNN

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed the strikes, stating that Ukrainian forces targeted "important facilities in the Krasnodar and Stavropol regions" including logistics centres supplying the Russian army. Zelenskyy also reported that a tanker and four cargo ships belonging to what he described as Russia's "shadow fleet" were hit in the Black Sea and Azov Sea areas. Al Jazeera

The maritime dimension appears substantial. Robert Brovdi, commander of Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces, said Ukrainian drones struck 13 Russian vessels in the Black Sea and Sea of Azov over the 48 hours preceding 22 July. The coordination of strikes against both land-based logistics and naval assets within a compressed timeframe suggests a deliberate effort to disrupt Russian supply chains across multiple domains simultaneously.

The 22 July attacks follow an earlier strike on 18 July, when Ukrainian drones targeted Wildberries logistics centres in Kotovsk, Tambov Region, and Elektrostal, Moscow Region. The Kotovsk strike killed seven people and injured 24, according to Tambov Region governor Yevgeny Pervyshov. One of the warehouses struck on 18 July was in central Russia's Tambov region, bringing the geographic spread of the campaign from the Moscow region to the North Caucasus. Novaya Gazeta Europe TASS

Wildberries is Russia's largest online retailer, and the repeated strikes on its infrastructure raise a distinct set of questions. The company operates a sprawling network of logistics centres that process consumer goods, but Zelenskyy's framing of the targeted sites as dual-use facilities supporting Russian military logistics introduces a legal and strategic dimension. If Wildberries warehouses are being used to store or trans-ship military supplies, they become legitimate military objectives under international humanitarian law, though the presence of civilian workers complicates the proportionality calculus. The 18 July strike, which killed eight night-shift workers, illustrates the human cost of targeting facilities with dual civilian and military functions.

The pattern of repeated strikes on the same company's infrastructure, separated by only four days, also suggests that Ukrainian forces have identified Wildberries logistics nodes as nodes worth degrading systematically rather than opportunistically. The geographic breadth from Elektrostal, near Moscow, to Krasnodar and Stavropol in the south, indicates either a large drone fleet with extended range or the use of multiple launch corridors. The simultaneous targeting of naval assets in the Black Sea and Sea of Azov compounds the picture, potentially straining Russian air-defense allocations across a wide arc.

What remains unclear is the extent of damage to the logistics infrastructure itself and whether the strikes have materially disrupted Wildberries' operations or any military supply chains that may run through its facilities. The company has evacuated at least two centres, and fires have been reported at multiple sites, but operational impact assessments have not been disclosed.

The broader context here is a war in which Ukraine has increasingly relied on long-range drone strikes to hit targets deep inside Russian territory, targeting oil refineries, ammunition depots, and now commercial logistics infrastructure. The Wildberries campaign, if sustained, would mark an expansion of Ukraine's target set to include private-sector supply chains, with all the escalation and civilian-casualty implications that entails.