00:00The Ukrainian defense forces launched an airstrike against the logistics center
00:05from the Oson online market, located in the Republic of Tatarstan, territory of
00:09Russia. This is the first Ukrainian drone attack against Oson facilities.
00:16A video circulating on social media shows a Ukrainian drone attacking a warehouse.
00:21The company. The logistics center is reportedly located in Selenodolsk, Tatarstan.
00:27The images show a large number of Oson employees running out of the
00:32warehouse, while an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flies over the area. Seconds
00:38Then, the drone explodes just a few dozen meters from the warehouse complex.
00:43The Ukrainian defense forces had never before attacked Oson's logistics centers,
00:49limiting their offensives to Wildberries facilities. It is possible that the armed forces
00:54Ukraine's companies are now expanding their attacks to another of Russia's major online marketplaces.
00:59It should be remembered that since July 18, the Ukrainian armed forces have been carrying out
01:05regular airstrikes against Wildberries warehouses, considering them legitimate targets.
01:12According to reports, this online marketplace sells products for the so-called Military Operation
01:17Special, SBO, and helps the Russian Military-Industrial Complex obtain sanctioned goods,
01:23as components for drones. Ukrainian attack drones have a new target
01:29Military personnel in Russia, the country's largest e-commerce warehouses. According to Business Insider,
01:36at least 10 facilities belonging to Wildberries, Russia's largest online retailer,
01:41have been hit by Ukrainian attacks in the last two weeks. It should be noted that the
01:46Wildberries group reported gross merchandise sales of approximately 73 billion
01:52of dollars last year. It is estimated that the company lost more than 9% of its space
01:58storage, solely as a result of the July attacks.
02:01The publication emphasized that, like Amazon, the company operates an online platform that allows
02:08to allow sellers to list their products and use their warehouses to store inventory before the
02:14delivery. This means that the goods destroyed in the attacks belonged mainly to delivery.
02:19to private businesses. Wildberries vendors also sell equipment
02:25tactical, dual-use goods and drone components, reason that Ukraine cited to justify
02:31the attack. The state-owned bank Sberbank has already announced that approximately 300 companies with loans have
02:39requested payment deferrals or modifications to the terms of their loans after the
02:44attacks. Sberbank added that it may have been forced to increase its reserves to cover
02:49overdue loans. Meanwhile, on July 7, Wildberries modified its compensation policy.
02:56to include drone and missile attacks as force majeure circumstances, thus exempting the
03:02company liability for the loss of merchandise from sellers.
03:06Experts estimate that two Ukrainian attacks on July 21 cost retailers at least
03:13$1.87 billion worth of merchandise. Since then, eight more warehouses have suffered.
03:20Powerful drone attacks. Wildberries promised to compensate some companies for their losses.
03:27Although it did not reveal the extent of these, the publication noted that it is still unclear which aerial systems
03:34Ukraine used unmanned aerial vehicles to attack the warehouses. Firepoint, the manufacturer of one of the
03:41The most commonly used long-range attack drones, he stated, were their propeller-driven drone.
03:46FP-1 was used in at least one recorded attack in Ryazan.
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