What Happens to Wildberries Orders and Sellers After the Drone Strike?

Second-largest warehouse in the country by orders — 7% of the network

On the night of July 18, drones set fire to two Wildberries warehouses — in Elektrostal in the Moscow region and in Kotovsk in Tambov region. In Kotovsk, the target was a 108,000 sq. m complex, while in Elektrostal it was a 250,000 sq. m facility — the company's second-largest warehouse by order processing volume. According to estimates, approximately 5–10% of all Wildberries shipments passed through the Moscow region facility, and the two sites together employed around 11,000 people. 

Real estate consultants surveyed by Vedomosti estimated the lost capacity at approximately 350,000 sq. m — about 7% of the company's total warehouse space. In total, the group has more than 200 logistics facilities covering 5.2 million sq. m. 

There's no single loss figure yet, and the range of estimates itself is telling. Kommersant experts quoted the cost of restoring just the infrastructure itself: from 21.5 to 35.8 billion rubles, depending on whether you calculate at 60 or 100 thousand rubles per square meter. That's just the warehouse itself: walls, engineering systems, and equipment.

Then there's the merchandise. According to Vedomosti's estimate, together with the burned inventory, total damage reaches 50 billion rubles. And if you count aggregate losses including lost revenue and logistics downtime, estimates reach 100 billion rubles. The fivefold range stems from different layers of losses: the company's square meters burn separately, sellers' merchandise on those meters burns separately, and lost sales while the hub is down are counted separately.