The Frontline with Jerome Starkey
Oct 15, 2026 · 23 min · 8 segments
Russian cities have been shrouded in smoke from a series of Ukrainian drone strikes that destroyed warehouses belonging to Russia’s Amazon knock-off, ‘Wildberries’. Depots in Moscow, Krasnodar…
Jerome StarkeyHost
This appears to be a new tactic or an evolution of an existing tactic to crush Russian logistics.
Over the course of the last seven days, Ukraine has hammered a number of large logistics warehouses, at least four, possibly more of them belonging to the Wildberries online retailer.
Overnight on the 17th to the 18th of July in Kotovsk, in Tambov, some 380 kilometers inside Russia, the first warehouse hit.
Now, some seven people killed, 62 injured inside that warehouse according to Russian officials.
The second, the same night in Elektrostal in Moscow Oblast, one person killed, 37 injured.
Then on the 20th J- of July, more logistics warehouses hit in Kolodino, also in Moscow, around the Domodedovo Industrial Park.
That's near Russia's second, or rather Moscow's second international airport serving the city.
On the night of July 27th in Krasnodar, in Krasnodar Krai, another warehouse hit some 480 kilometers from Ukrainian territory.
In Zheleznodolsk, the most recent strikes overnight, news emerging this morning.
And an unconfirmed strike in Voronezh, or rather a confirmed strike, but unconfirmed whether indeed it's Wildberries or in fact another Russian retailer, another logistics hub belonging to the company Magnit.
It's owned by Tata- Tatiana Kim, Russia's richest woman, a former English teacher, a mother of seven who founded the company in 2004, and she was just 28, from her apartment in Moscow when she was on maternity leave.
These are vast industrial warehouses, the sort of places you see from trains or motorways as you're driving past with enormous lorry bays, uh, so that they can load and unload vast quantities of goods at speed.
It sells everything, but crucially, it sells a lot of military and dual use equipment.
It sells body armor, it sells helmets, it sells rifle scopes and night vision optics, and it sells drones.
This appears to be a new tactic or an evolution of an existing tactic to crush Russian logistics.
Over the course of the last seven days, Ukraine has hammered a number of large logistics warehouses, at least four, possibly more of them belonging to the Wildberries online retailer.
Overnight on the 17th to the 18th of July in Kotovsk, in Tambov, some 380 kilometers inside Russia, the first warehouse hit.
Now, some seven people killed, 62 injured inside that warehouse according to Russian officials.
The second, the same night in Elektrostal in Moscow Oblast, one person killed, 37 injured.
Then on the 20th J- of July, more logistics warehouses hit in Kolodino, also in Moscow, around the Domodedovo Industrial Park.
That's near Russia's second, or rather Moscow's second international airport serving the city.
On the night of July 27th in Krasnodar, in Krasnodar Krai, another warehouse hit some 480 kilometers from Ukrainian territory.
In Zheleznodolsk, the most recent strikes overnight, news emerging this morning.
And an unconfirmed strike in Voronezh, or rather a confirmed strike, but unconfirmed whether indeed it's Wildberries or in fact another Russian retailer, another logistics hub belonging to the company Magnit.
It's owned by Tata- Tatiana Kim, Russia's richest woman, a former English teacher, a mother of seven who founded the company in 2004, and she was just 28, from her apartment in Moscow when she was on maternity leave.
These are vast industrial warehouses, the sort of places you see from trains or motorways as you're driving past with enormous lorry bays, uh, so that they can load and unload vast quantities of goods at speed.
It sells everything, but crucially, it sells a lot of military and dual use equipment.
It sells body armor, it sells helmets, it sells rifle scopes and night vision optics, and it sells drones.
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