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  • Ukraine went for Russia’s “AliExpress” again—its next-door warehouse was ablaze
    Ukrainian drones struck logistics and industrial sites across Russia's Moscow Oblast on the morning of 28 July, according to monitoring channels and local authorities. Fires broke out near Podolsk and in Chekhov, while Russia's biggest online marketplace said its own warehouse kept running. Russian officials claimed air defenses downed hundreds of drones. Earlier this month, Ukraine expanded its deep-strike campaign from primarily oil refineries and fuel depots in R
     
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Ukraine went for Russia’s “AliExpress” again—its next-door warehouse was ablaze

Par : Yuri Zoria
28 juillet 2026 à 03:53

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Ukrainian drones struck logistics and industrial sites across Russia's Moscow Oblast on the morning of 28 July, according to monitoring channels and local authorities. Fires broke out near Podolsk and in Chekhov, while Russia's biggest online marketplace said its own warehouse kept running. Russian officials claimed air defenses downed hundreds of drones.

Earlier this month, Ukraine expanded its deep-strike campaign from primarily oil refineries and fuel depots in Russia to the warehouses of Wildberries, Russia's largest e-marketplace. The campaign aims at undermining Russia's wartime economy that sustains the ongoing invasion of Ukraine.

Aimed at Russia's Amazon, the hit landed next door

Early on 28 July, Ukrainian monitoring channel Exilenova+ started reporting drone activity over Moscow Oblast. Over the next hours it posted photos, video, and its own read of the target. The channel judged the strike as a likely attempt on the large Wildberries logistics center in Koledino, south of Podolsk. Air-defense fire, it said, probably pushed the hit onto the third-party warehouse right beside it.

Wildberries is Russia's biggest online retailer, its answer to America's Amazon or China's AliExpress. The neighboring depot belongs to Koledino 3PL, an independent logistics and fulfillment operator. 

Russian news Telegram channel Astra identified the burning building as that 3PL site. Residents of nearby Podolsk reported explosions and a fire that same morning. Supernova+ backed the account of a hit on the 3PL warehouse.

The operator's own site lists the warehouse at about 10,000 m². It stores goods, packs orders, labels and ships for clients that include Auchan, Magnit, Lenta, Pyaterochka, Fix Price and Detsky Mir. Next to it sits what one industry listing calls the marketplace's largest distribution center, over 200,000 m². Wildberries' press service said the complex was working normally. Monitoring channels still believe the intended target was the Wildberries hub. 

Warehouse of the 3PL logistics operator is burning near Moscow

In Koledino, Ukrainian drones struck the facility sitting next to a large Wildberries warehouse, which remains unharmed.

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Podolsk district head Grigory Artamonov played it down, reporting only a damaged fence at a private house and a fire in a wooded area.

A rubber plant on fire in Chekhov

Video published by Exilenova+ also showed drones hitting an enterprise in Chekhov. More footage captured a fire after a drone reportedly struck a smokestack on a plant's grounds. Astra's analysis placed the blaze at the Chekhov Regeneration Plant. Residents had reported explosions overnight.

The plant recycles worn car tires into regenerate, rubber crumb and powder, and makes more than 600 rubber goods. By its own account, it is one of Russia's biggest producers in the field. Chekhov municipal head Mikhail Sobakin confirmed the attack, saying rubber had caught fire at the plant and crews were putting it out, with several buildings in the city damaged.

Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin first claimed 12 drones downed near the capital around 5 a.m. He later put more than 390 aircraft over the region between 20:30 and 6:30, saying air defenses hit most "on distant approaches" and 81 near Moscow. Russia's Defense Ministry claimed its air defenses downed 356 Ukrainian drones overnight, across a dozen regions plus the Moscow area, occupied Crimea and the Azov Sea. None of the figures could be independently checked.

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Ukraine went for Russia’s “AliExpress” again—its next-door warehouse was ablaze

Deep-strike campaign continues

Since 18 July, Ukrainian drones have hit at least ten of the marketplace's centers, in Elektrostal, Kotovsk, Krasnodar, Nevinnomyssk, Voronezh and Yekaterinburg. The previous successful strike came on 24 July, at complexes near St. Petersburg, in Leningrad Oblast and in occupied Simferopol. On 20 July, drones struck the Wildberries center in Podolsk and an oil depot in nearby Lvovsky, both catching fire, as the effort widened from oil refineries to retail and industry.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has earlier explained the strikes on the "Russian AliExpress" by saying Moscow uses the platform to bring in sanctioned drone and navigation parts.

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“When karma works”: Ukraine torched 188,000-square-meter warehouse of Russia’s biggest online retailer after years of strikes on leading logistics company

Par : Olena Mukhina
18 juillet 2026 à 10:45

The black smoke somes from the Wildberries warehouse in Moscow Oblast. Image: Exilenova_Plus

Ukraine burned a 188,000-square-meter warehouse near Moscow. The First Separate Center of Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces (SBS) confirmed it struck the Wildberries logistics warehouse in Moscow Oblast, saying the facility was ablaze with black smoke visible for kilometers. 

Wildberries is the largest Russian online retailer and e-commerce marketplace. 
Ukraine has increasingly gone after the logistics and commercial infrastructure feeding Russia's war, not only refineries and arms plants.

"Wildberries with a crust from Moscow Oblast. A huge 188,000-square-meter Wildberries warehouse is burning brightly thanks to the work of the 1st Separate Center of the SBS, and the black smoke is visible for kilometers," the unit said, adding that "when karma works, fire extinguishers no longer help wild society."

The Russian OSINT channel Astra reported separately that military equipment and drone-tuning tools were sold through the marketplace, and that some estimates put the fire damage at up to 100 billion rubles (about $1.3 billion), with no official figure.

The claims about what the warehouse sold and the total damage are unverified, and come from Russian monitoring channels rather than from the Ukrainian unit that carried out the strike.

Russia has been hitting Ukraine's own logistics operator for years

Russia has struck Nova Poshta — Ukraine's largest private postal and logistics operator — repeatedly throughout the full-scale war.

The deadliest hit came on 21 October 2023, when a Russian missile struck a Nova Poshta terminal in Korotych, Kharkiv Oblast, killing six employees and wounding 17, and destroying hundreds of tons of parcels, per UA.News. 

The pace picked up through mid-2026. Russian drones hit the Dnipro sorting center on 3-4 July, a Shahed struck the Zaporizhzhia sorting center on 2 July, and a missile partially destroyed one of the company's most modern terminals in Kyiv's Obolon district in a 5-6 July combined attack. Strikes also hit sorting terminals in Kryvyi Rih and a branch in Chernihiv in early July, and a Nova Poshta branch in Kramatorsk was struck on 16 July. 

Strike hit Noginsk-Elektrostal area overnight

The night's strikes set fires at two sites in the Noginsk-Elektrostal agglomeration east of Moscow: the Wildberries logistics center in Elektrostal and an oil depot in Noginsk, Astra reports. Witnesses published video of fires and explosions on the morning of 18 July, and OSINT analysts identified the burning oil depot as the Noginsk facility.

The Noginsk oil depot presents itself as an independent fuel-market operator, used for storing, transshipping, loading, and shipping light petroleum products, including gasoline and diesel.

It holds 24 reservoirs with a total volume of 11,500 cubic meters and serves as an infrastructure partner for fuel traders and companies across the Moscow region, with large suppliers renting its tanks.

The published video showed heavy smoke near Moscow, visible up to 50 kilometers away by witness accounts.

Deep-strike campaign keeps reaching Moscow Oblast

The strikes extend a deep-strike campaign that has repeatedly reached the Russian capital region. Ukrainian drones have hit Moscow Oblast fuel and military-industrial sites through 2026, striking fuel terminals and technoparks in a massive 17 May barrage, and hitting the Kapotnya refinery 15 kilometers from the Kremlin repeatedly in June.

The oil depot fits the campaign's core logic. Ukraine's deep-strike campaign has knocked out 42% of Russia's refining and cost the industry $13.5 billion since August 2025, pushing fuel rationing into most Russian regions.  

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