The drone attack on the Moscow region on the night of August 16 caused a fire at the Wildberries logistics warehouse in Podolsk. Firefighters worked at the facility, located in the Kolodino Industrial Park.
Moscow Region Governor Andrey Vorobyov announced that an 83-year-old man was killed within the boundaries of the Ramenskoye municipality. A drone fell onto the grounds of a private residence.
According to Vorobyov, three people were injured in Podolsk. A truck driver's hand was injured in Klimovsk, another man suffered shrapnel wounds to his body at the Lesnoy gardening cooperative, and a woman injured her shoulder in the Zheleznodorozhny settlement. The injured people were not in life-threatening condition and continued to receive treatment.
The attack caused damage at several locations
In addition to the fire at the Wildberries warehouse in Podolsk, a private residence in Lesnoy, a car in Klimovsk and a power transmission line in the Matveyevskoye residential settlement were damaged.
A fire broke out at a warehouse containing medicines in Domodedovo. Fires also occurred on the balconies of some residential buildings, while the walls and windows of other buildings were damaged. The roofs of two detached houses and a shopping center were also damaged.
A private residence in the Meshcherskoye settlement in Chekhov and the building of a church school in the village of Yakshino were damaged. In Stupino, a drone that fell onto the grounds of a gardening cooperative caused a sauna building to collapse.
Wildberries redirected shipments to other facilities
Wildberries-Russ's press service announced that a fire had broken out at the logistics facility in Podolsk and that firefighters were at the scene. The company said the facility had been evacuated in advance in line with safety requirements.
The company said its logistics chains had been reorganized. Supplier receiving and order shipments are continuing through other facilities.
Six hundred drones headed toward Moscow region
Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin announced that 600 drones flew toward the Moscow region from the previous evening until 6:30 a.m. Sobyanin said air defense systems destroyed 201 drones and that emergency crews were working in areas where debris had fallen.
Wildberries warehouses had been targeted before
Wildberries announced that its logistics facilities in Russia had been affected by multiple drone attacks since mid-July. Damage and fires occurred at warehouse complexes in different regions, while operations at some facilities were temporarily suspended. The company said the attacks affected approximately 20 logistics facilities.
Attacks on logistics centers in Kotovsk in Tambov region and Elektrostal in Moscow region on July 18 were recorded as the first major incidents. According to statements by Russian officials, seven employees were killed in the attack in Kotovsk, while one person was killed in the incident in Elektrostal. Wildberries said employees had been evacuated and assistance had been provided to the injured.
Fires broke out at the Wildberries logistics centers in Krasnodar and Nevinnomyssk in Stavropol region after attacks on July 22, and employees were evacuated. The company said warehouse operations were temporarily suspended and that facility employees were injured.
Wildberries warehouses in the Republic of Udmurtia, Crimea, and the Volgograd, Leningrad, Samara, Vladimir, Penza, Tula and Tver regions were also among the targets of earlier attacks. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claimed on July 22 that the targeted logistics centers were used to supply the Russian army with drone components, navigation equipment and other equipment.
