Ukraine has destroyed two more large warehouses belonging to Russia’s biggest marketplace retailer, Wildberries. This time, warehouses in southern Russia – near Krasnodar and in Stavropol Krai – were set ablaze.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. Earlier, the company’s largest warehouses, located near Moscow (in Elektrostal) and in Tambov Region, had already been destroyed. The list of the biggest Wildberries warehouses destroyed included (Collage by AREA) According to various sources, the total damage is estimated at between 150 and 230 billion rubles (about $2 billion), plus another 30 to 35 billion rubles (around $300 million) that will have to be spent on clearing debris and repairing the terminals. Wildberries, founded in 2004, is now the leader of Russia’s retail sector, controlling more than 40% of the market and, together with its main competitor Ozon, up to 70%. It’s Russia’s equivalent of Amazon, although its role in the Russian economy is even greater than Amazon’s in the United States. Wildberries’ annual turnover exceeds 4 trillion rubles, or roughly $30-35 billion. That accounts for more than 10% of all domestic trade in Russia. The Russian internet is filled with desperate appeals from small and medium-sized business owners who lost merchandise worth hundreds of millions of dollars in the destroyed warehouses. Some lost everything.
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At first glance, logistics centers storing consumer goods appear to be purely civilian targets. But the reality is far more complicated.










