637 Drones Target Moscow Region as Wildberries Warehouses Suffer Billions in Losses
Russian officials said 637 Ukrainian drones targeted Moscow and the surrounding region overnight on Aug. 17-18, with several people injured and infrastructure damaged. A Wildberries warehouse caught fire, adding to mounting losses from repeated strikes on the e-commerce giant’s logistics network.
On the night of August 17, Russian authorities recorded over 600 Ukrainian drones launching attacks on Moscow and its surrounding region. Mayor Sergei Sobyanin confirmed that 637 drones targeted the capital, with 180 successfully intercepted. Moscow Region Governor Andrei Vorobyov reported intercepting more than 150 drones in various districts, including the Pavlovsky Posad apartment fire.
In Ramenskoye, a drone crash injured a 10-year-old and two others. Wildberries suffered significant losses, with a fire at a warehouse in Bogorodsky and a retail pavilion blaze near the Globus shopping center. The power grid was damaged, affecting 109 transformer substations and leaving over 5,000 customers and 46 vital facilities without electricity.
The attacks have caused financial damage to Wildberries, valued between 78-700 billion rubles ($918-8.24 billion), with Data Insight estimating 147-223 billion rubles ($1.7-2.6 billion) in direct losses. Ukrainian authorities claim the strikes are legitimate military targets due to Wildberries' sale of goods used by Russian forces.
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