Wildberries founder Tatyana Kim addresses sellers on drone strikes, warehouse damage, and compensation, calls Ukrainian strikes ‘terrorist attacks’

On July 31, after two weeks of Ukrainian strikes on her company’s warehouses, Wildberries founder and CEO Tatyana Kim addressed sellers, customers, and the business community in a video shared on her Telegram channel. Meduza has translated her full remarks into English.

MOSCOW, July 31 - Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian online retailer Wildberries amount to \"acts of terrorism\" against civilians, affecting millions of people in Russia and other countries, the company's founder and CEO, Tatyana Kim, said on Friday.

Ukrainian forces have struck at least 18 Wildberries warehouses over the past two weeks, targeting logistics facilities totaling more than 1 million square meters – 38% of the Russian online retailer's largest warehouse capacity, according to an analysis by Russian outlet Agentstvo. Including attempted strikes, 60% of

Russian e-retailer Ozon says Ukrainian drone alert forces it to evacuate Tatarstan warehouse  Reuters

'The package won't arrive:' Blazes at Wildberries warehouses in Russia's Penza, Udmurtia amid more Ukrainian drone strikes  The Kyiv Independent

The attacks come after Russian strikes in Ukraine killed at least eight people overnight and Poland scrambled fighter jets.

Russia's top online retailer Wildberries says it has evacuated warehouses in Ryazan.

Drones damaged at least seven Wildberries warehouses, destroying around 10-per-cent of the company’s storage capacity