Ukraine strikes Russian warehouses and energy sites in air war escalation
Drone strikes hit Wildberries warehouses in southern Russia, injuring at least eight and setting off fires that burned across thousands of square meters.
Ukrainian drones hit warehouses, energy sites and logistics hubs across southern Russia and occupied Crimea overnight on July 22, setting off major fires at Wildberries distribution centers in Krasnodar and Nevinnomyssk. At least eight people were injured, and the blazes spread across thousands of square meters as the war’s air campaign pushed deeper into Russian supply lines.
Wildberries, Russia’s largest online retail giant, became the latest symbol of how the air war is targeting economic arteries as well as military ones. Videos circulating on Russian social media showed sellers and workers filming shelves and pallets in flames, with one vendor saying: “All of my clients’ goods are going up in flames.” The Kremlin said a day earlier that Ukrainian attacks on Wildberries warehouses had caused harm, underscoring the political sensitivity of the strikes.
The pattern had already sharpened earlier in July, when Ukrainian drone attacks killed seven warehouse workers in Russia and sparked a fire at a Moscow-region oil depot. The new attacks extended that approach from oil and fuel infrastructure to retail logistics, suggesting Ukrainian forces are pressing on Russia’s rear-area vulnerabilities where drones can inflict both physical damage and commercial disruption.
Russia has kept up its own barrage on Ukraine. On June 12, 2024, Russian missile and drone attacks hit Ukraine early that day, causing a fire at an industrial facility in Kyiv region and injuring several people. The exchange has since become a two-way air war in which warehouses, fuel depots and industrial sites have joined cities like Kyiv among the regular targets, raising the cost for civilians while signaling that both militaries are willing to strike far from the front lines.
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