One Russian warehouse smolders near Kazakhstan while a bigger fire rages near St. Petersburg
The parcel depot near Kazakhstan can hold tens of millions of orders and had to be cleared out.
On August 23, Ukrainian drones targeted a logistics complex belonging to Russian online retailer Ozon in Orenburg, marking the second such attack on an Ozon warehouse in two days. The site, located about 1,200 km from the conflict zone near Russia's border with Kazakhstan, caught fire following the drone strike. Earlier, a significant fire engulfed a warehouse in Kolpino, a town roughly 900 km north of Ukraine, though there were no reports of a drone or missile threat.
As Ukrainian drones reach deeper into Russian territory, they increasingly target fuel depots, factories, and delivery hubs crucial to the war economy. With each strike, Moscow is forced to stretch its air defenses across a vast country that cannot be fully shielded. Ukrainian monitoring channel Exilenova+ captured video of the first strike, which ignited a fire at the Ozon warehouse in Orenburg.
The complex, spanning over 200,000 square meters and designed to store over 31 million items, is one of the largest in Russia, situated within the city's special economic zone. After the strike, Ozon evacuated more than 300 workers, pulled its goods from online marketplaces, and halted new deliveries. Meanwhile, a separate fire at a storage facility run by Logistera, near St. Petersburg, also broke out overnight, though witnesses did not hear any drone or air defense alerts.
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