Wildberries sellers' losses following attacks on their warehouses are estimated at $2.7–3.6 billion
Sellers on the Wildberries marketplace may have lost between $2.7 billion and $3.6 billion due to Ukrainian drone strikes on the company’s warehouses.
This estimate was provided by Sergey Semko, a leading analyst at the research agency Data Insight.
The calculation is based on data from 2024, when nearly 35 billion rubles in compensation was paid for remaining inventory following a fire at a Wildberries warehouse in Shushary.
According to Denis Vetrennikov, CEO of SellerDen, an ecosystem of services for sellers, the exact number of affected sellers is unknown, but it amounts to several hundred thousand entrepreneurs.
According to Semko’s estimate, as of August 2, Wildberries warehouses with a total area of 1.21–1.47 million square meters were affected, of which 893,000–1.154 million square meters were damaged. This represents 17.2–22.2% of the company’s total logistics infrastructure.
Source: Forbes.
As a reminder, the Russian online marketplace Ozon evacuated employees from its logistics center in Zelenodolsk (Tatarstan) due to the threat of an attack by Ukrainian drones. After the alert was lifted, the warehouse resumed normal operations.
On the morning of July 31, drones attacked a warehouse complex in Zelenodolsk (Tatarstan, Russian Federation), where the logistics facilities of the Ozon and Wildberries marketplaces are located. Following this, a number of Ukrainian sources reported that strikes on Ozon warehouses might continue.
