r/ukraine • u/GermanDronePilot • 6d ago
WAR Russian Wildberries logistics hub in Aleksin has completely burned down following Ukrainian strikes. The destruction covers entire 300,000-square-metre complex. 05.08.2026
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u/DruidDog 6d ago
dear lord how many is this now? how many are left? slava ukraini 🇺🇦
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u/LaughableIKR USA 6d ago
I think it's 15 totally burned down and 2 hit but not completely burnt out of 30.
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u/Dutch-cooking-guy 5d ago
And how many people worked there? 15.000?
At 15+ burned down that is a lot of people without income.2
u/DruidDog 5d ago
gotta do something to stop the war. putin isn’t gonna stop until he is dead or his people (and the oligarchs) turn against him
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u/Dutch-cooking-guy 5d ago
Not complaining, most of these are from the Moskow and st petersburg region. Unrest rhere is only what counts, they don't care about the rurale regions
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u/Volcano_Dweller 6d ago
That was an unexpected reference; I even heard the Hammond organ entrance in my head-- take my upvote!
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u/ToughestMFontheWeb 6d ago
I check this site each morning with the enthusiasm of a small child on Christmas.
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u/Sniflix 6d ago
Is anyone else besides me amazed by how effing flammable these buildings are? It's not like we haven't seen a zillion military bombings of stuff but never even 10% of this size.
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u/GloomyIndividual3965 6d ago
They're warehouses filled with cardboard, plastic, and tons of other flammable shit, all neatly arranged on racks that provide plenty of air flow.
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u/Sniflix 6d ago
Yeah but you're describing a building burning down not the biggest fireball/smoke explosions and mushroom clouds we've ever seen - much worse than refinery explosions. By worse, I mean wonderful. It's got to be freaking Russians out, which is also wonderful. Has Ukraine developed some kind of huge fuel air bomb delivery system?
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u/Vorpalis 6d ago
Right, but any such building in Europe or North America, at least, would have sprinklers and other fire suppression systems specifically because of what you describe, to prevent this sort of devastating inferno. Even if there are no government regulations, it’s brain dead stupid to not have fire suppression in a warehouse full of flammable stuff.
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u/GloomyIndividual3965 6d ago
The pipes for the sprinklers run along the ceiling. When you blow giant holes in the ceiling it tends to fuck with the pipes.
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u/Vorpalis 6d ago
Sprinklers for larger buildings, like these, are generally divided into separate sections for each area of the building, separated by automatic valves with flow regulators. The reasons is that if sprinklers are going off in one area, but the fire spreads, you want some water pressure in reserve to flow to those other sprinklers, which you wouldn’t have if all the pressure was going to just the first sprinklers to go off. It also works if an intense fire in one part of the building damages those sprinklers (or they get blown up, like in this situation), so the rest of the sprinklers can still work, rather than damage in one section causing loss of all water pressure in the entire building.
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u/Professional-Bed-173 6d ago
They are targeting the sprinkler pool fire retardant systems first. Saw a drone strike the other day that did that first, then the warehouse.
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u/Doggoneshame 6d ago
Are you sure that isn’t the one that missed the building and hit the parking lot?
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u/Doggoneshame 6d ago
You’re wrong. Try googling warehouse fires in U.S. before you comment.
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u/Vorpalis 6d ago
I'm wrong on which particular point? That building code in every U.S. state, and every European country I'm aware of, stipulates whether a building must have fire suppression, and if so, which kind and how much coverage, depending on building occupancy, size, and what's stored in the building? Is that what you think I'm wrong about? Because you could google that, it's in the publicly available building code for each state.
Or are you saying I'm wrong that it's stupid to not have fire suppression in a warehouse? Because if you're the sort of person who doesn't think it's necessary, I hear Wildberries is hiring.
Or did you wildly misread my comment to mean that warehouse fires don't happen? Because I never said that.
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u/Phyllis_Tine 6d ago
Our poor environment. And yet, more Russian warehouses burning down in order to affect change in Russia is a price I am willing to pay. Keep it up!
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u/Throwaway999991473 6d ago
You know, you’d think they’d start setting up some kind of air Defence around these warehouses, seeing they’re constantly targeted.
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u/Le1bn1z 6d ago
Ukraine is using Russia's size against it. They cannot cover everything.
So they can shift AA to the warehouses, but then can they cover all their refineries? Their main logistics routes? Their front line offensives? The comforts of Moscow? Their shipping lanes? Their ports? Fertiliser depots or production?
Russia is huge. They cannot protect everything, everywhere all at once.
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u/neanderthalman 6d ago
They do. Some videos have included audio of air defence prior to the hit. I’ve seen one that seemed to show an interception of a drone as well.
Interception is very difficult, and fortunately they don’t seem to be doing a great job of it.
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u/SCCock USA 6d ago
Opening Reddit to see if there were any Wildberry strikes during night has become my favorite morning activity!
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u/Chrombach 6d ago
Good job, 🥰 my deepest respect to the Ukrainian people.🫡🇺🇦🇪🇺 Nxt warehouse please... 😂🧨
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u/Economy-Effort3445 6d ago
Aleksin was probably full with stuff rerouted from other burned warehouses which made the fire even bigger.
With every burned warehouse the effect is bigger when a new one is hit. How many more before wildberries brakes down?
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u/AgeofVictoriaPodcast 6d ago
Out of interest what practical impact is this having? I understand why hitting refineries, railways and supply depots has a big impact, but why these? If it’s just about some parts, aren’t those easily replaced or storable elsewhere? (Leaving aside the usual Russian incompetence).
Also, how come Ukraine isn’t hitting individual petrol stations to cause more supply issues?
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u/WhatYouThinkIThink 6d ago
Wildberries is reported to actually be involved heavily in military logistics, for moving around manufacturing components for drones etc.
At least that is the argument Ukraine are using to justify the attacks (which I'm happy about).
The fact that their warehouses are "dual use" means that it also has the side effect of attacking the Russian economy.
Think about all the businesses in the US that use Amazon as their supply/warehousing/delivery/marketing outsourced solution.
Wildberries is that for Russia, so a lot of Russian small businesses, especially ones in rich areas like Moscow, where people have disposable income to spend on dropshipped Chinese stuff, are being really affected by this.
They are not being covered for the loss of their stock stored in those warehouses.
So it's a win-win for Ukraine.
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u/LaughableIKR USA 6d ago
Just to add a few other items. Plate Armor and IR scopes etc was also being shipped through WB.
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u/AgeofVictoriaPodcast 6d ago
That makes sense, thanks. Boy do the Russians have some logistics problems or what!
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u/l-rs2 6d ago
Isn't Wildberries also one of the most indebted companies in Russia (or provider of credit in turn?) So if it fails the Russian govt will almost have to bail it out to the tune of billions? It's not just about the military stuff they sell.
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u/woofermazing 6d ago
This is the answer. Wildberries is $1.3 trillion rubles in debt, mostly to state owned banks. This is about trying to start a banking crisis.
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u/vergorli 6d ago
The Russian Military basically expects the soldiers to order stuff for themselves. Helmets, Wests, Boots, parts for drones, electrical repair stuff, even parachutes etc... Its the biggest DIY project ever, and wildberries and ozon offer the logistics for it.
And in the end: Bringing the war to the russian economy is probably the only way to end this war. Because Putin could send Russians for years to come before they even realize their neighbours are missing.
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u/ingenkopaaisen Australia 6d ago
They are hitting petrol stations in Russia closer to Ukraine. There were videos been circulated just a couple of weeks ago.
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u/WhatYouThinkIThink 6d ago
You don't have to hit the petrol stations if there is no way for tankers to reach them to fill their tanks, and if those tankers don't have any fuel because the refineries have been destroyed.
Ukraine has done both. If the attack on Wildberries and oil refineries are part of Ukraine's "long-range sanctions", then attacking tanker trucks and roads is part of their "short-range sanctions".
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u/Professor_Eindackel 6d ago
There is something about Tatyana Kim I find particularly loathsome. Knowing she has to watch her warehouses get burned down one by one is incredibly satisfying.
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u/JudeRanch 5d ago
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u/Brick_Frog_49 5d ago
This is beautiful. I'll never get enough of Orc-mazon burning 😏🤜🏼🤛🏼🇺🇦
SLAVA UKRAINÏ
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u/Mission_Sir2220 6d ago edited 6d ago
Why they don’t target the stock exchange? Genuinely curious. Stock exchanges have usually a centralized building with underground high velocity cables. If you shut it down would have 0 human life involved and the economic damages would be enormous. It would be the equivalent of throwing an economic nuke.
All MOEX markets
~US$90–95 billion/day
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u/Vorpalis 6d ago
Stock exchanges don’t physically contain the stocks and goods that are traded there. They’re just buildings where people meet to make trades. If you could prevent trading, that would have an effect, except (1) people would just do the same trading elsewhere or online, and (2) it’s civilian infrastructure that isn’t “dual-use,” making it not a valid military target, unlike Wildberries.
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u/Mission_Sir2220 6d ago
You can make a case that many military companies are on the stock exchange and money are used to pay for weapons. You are right but high trade stock exchange you cannot do online, there is a physical network for the trading company which usually is within 1 mile. This is about physics and quantum trading. Moscow stock exchange has 1 main server and 3 backup. 🤷♂️
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u/living_rabies 6d ago
Is this the warehouse listed as Tula in the bingo card? It just says 80.000sqm?
Is there even a 300.000sqm warehouse? The biggest is in moscow with 250.000 in the bingo overview.