50B rubles in damage, up to 15% of its warehouse space, and a contract clause that shifts the loss onto small vendors: inside Ukraine’s strike on Russia’s online retail giant, Wildberries

A Ukrainian strike on warehouses run by Wildberries, Russia's largest online retailer, has killed eight people and injured more than fifty, Meduza reports. President Volodymyr Zelensky described the attack as retaliation for Russian strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure, and said the targeted sites in the Moscow and Tambov regions held components used to make drones and navigation equipment. Meduza puts the preliminary damage at more than fifty billion rubles, with up to fifteen percent of the company's warehouse space possibly affected. Complicating matters for the many small vendors whose goods burned, Wildberries had added a clause to its seller agreement just eleven days earlier, exempting the company from liability in the event of a drone attack.

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