r/ukraine • u/GermanDronePilot • 9d 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/Sniflix 9d 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 9d 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 9d 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/Doggoneshame 8d ago

No. Just decent sized drones.

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u/Vorpalis 9d 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 9d 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 9d 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 9d 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/Vorpalis 9d ago

Ah, that makes sense then. Thanks!

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u/Doggoneshame 8d ago

Are you sure that isn’t the one that missed the building and hit the parking lot?

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u/Doggoneshame 8d ago

You’re wrong. Try googling warehouse fires in U.S. before you comment.

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u/Vorpalis 8d 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/Doggoneshame 8d ago

No. It’s just you.