Video: St. Petersburg was attacked by drones, and Wildberries warehouses were set on fire
On the night of July 24, drones attacked the Wildberries logistics hub in St. Petersburg. Following a series of explosions on the premises, two warehouses caught fire, and local residents posted photos and videos of thick smoke rising above the site of the attack.
A series of explosions rocked St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region overnight, and eyewitnesses captured thick smoke rising above the city on camera. According to monitoring channels, backed up by numerous videos from the scene, one of Wildberries’ logistics hubs was hit.
Leningrad Region Governor Alexander Drozdenco confirmed the drone attack on the region and reported that by 4:00 a.m., air defense forces had shot down eleven drones, adding that “combat operations are ongoing.” In St. Petersburg, a drone attack threat was declared, and Pulkovo Airport temporarily suspended flight arrivals and departures.
The target is located about 1,000 kilometers from Ukraine’s state border—at the same distance, drones have already struck other targets in the St. Petersburg area, including the Kronstadt naval base and the St. Petersburg oil terminal.
According to updated reports, two Wildberries facilities in southeastern St. Petersburg were struck simultaneously. These include the “Utkina Zavod” distribution center in Ust-Slavyanka, Vsevolozhsky District—a leased logistics facility operating under the FBW/FBO model that provides round-the-clock receipt of shipments— as well as the “Shushary” distribution center in the village of the same name in the Pushkin District—the company’s largest proprietary hub in northwestern Russia, which Wildberries restored in July 2025 following a major fire in 2024. Both facilities are located close to each other—near the city’s southern transportation arteries and the exit from the Ring Road.
St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region are one of the largest hubs in Wildberries’ logistics network in Russia. Several of the company’s key facilities operate in the region: the “Shushary” distribution center in the Pushkinsky District, covering over 100,000 square meters (rebuilt after a fire in 2024), the “Utkina Zavod” center in the Vsevolozhsky District for receiving goods from sellers, as well as the “Krasny Bir” complex in the Tosnensky District, which the company is actively expanding to handle large-sized goods. Hundreds of thousands of orders for customers across the entire northwestern region of Russia pass through these facilities every day.
Attacks on Wildberries’ logistics infrastructure have been ongoing in Russia since mid-July. On the night of July 18, drones simultaneously struck two of the company’s facilities—in Elektrostal in the Moscow Region and in Kotovsk in the Tambov Region—after which the fire in Elektrostal burned for over a day, and the smoke spread more than 200 kilometers. On July 20, drones again attacked a company facility in the Moscow region, and on July 22, they struck two hubs in southern Russia—in Nevinnomyssk and Krasnodar. On July 23, Voronezh came under attack; on the same day, drones also struck the company’s sorting center in the temporarily occupied city of Simferopol—the evacuation of the facility was confirmed by Wildberries’ press service itself.
The Russian city of Tver was also hit by drones overnight. According to reports from monitoring channels, a fire broke out after the attack. There were speculations that a Wildberries warehouse might be on fire. However, there is no accurate information available at this time.
This is reported by Exilenova+, Astra, and Supernova+.
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