The disruption at Wildberries that has been heavily targeted by Ukraine is sending shockwaves through Russia's retail sector, affecting tens of thousands of small businesses that rely on the country's leading e-commerce retailer to sell their products.
In the space of three weeks, Vasily Klimov's online shopping pick-up point in Moscow has gone from a healthy small business to a loss-making operation he is now desperately trying to sell.
Klimov runs one of 98,000 pick-up points in Russia and neighboring countries where customers collect goods ordered through Wildberries.
But since July 18, when Ukraine began hitting Wildberries warehouses across Russia in a wave of near-nightly drone attacks, his business has taken a massive dive.
Attacks on at least 20 of the company's sites have sparked major fires, destroyed entire warehouses of stock, and disrupted its vast logistics network across the world's largest country.
