Ukrainian drone strike sets fire to Ozon logistics hub in Adygeysk, southern Russia
A Ukrainian drone strike set fire to a logistics hub of the Russian e-commerce group Ozon in Adygeysk, in southern Russia's Adygea republic, on Wednesday — the second time the facility has been hit, the company and the regional head said. Ozon said all staff were evacuated and it knew of no casualties; it will cancel orders it cannot fill from other facilities and has paused seller deliveries to the centre. The strike is part of a campaign since July in which Ukraine has hit dozens of Ozon and Wildberries warehouses; Ozon said last week it expects drone attacks across 11 sites to cost it 30.1 billion roubles ($367 million). Ukraine made no comment on this strike.
Key points
- Second hit on the same hub: Ozon's Adygeysk logistics centre in Adygea caught fire after a Ukrainian drone strike on Wednesday.
- Ozon says all staff were evacuated and it knows of no casualties; orders it cannot fill elsewhere will be cancelled and seller deliveries to the centre are paused.
- The strike extends a campaign since July against Ozon and Wildberries warehouses — Ozon already expected 30.1 billion roubles ($367m) in losses across 11 sites.
What happened
Ukraine's drone campaign against Russian retail logistics began against Wildberries warehouses in July 2026 and spread to Ozon sites from August, reaching as far as Omsk in Siberia in October. Kyiv's stated purpose, in Reuters' reporting, is to disrupt Russia's economy and war effort; Russia has mounted similar attacks on Ukrainian commercial sites in an escalating air war. The Adygeysk strike came the night after Russia carried out waves of bombing on Ukraine's energy infrastructure, and days before US-mediated talks between Ukraine and Russia in Abu Dhabi on 10–11 November.
Claim by claim
Why this label: Reuters, from the company's and the regional head's statements, corroborated by Arab News (queue #1554) and by the Kyiv Independent's carrying of the company's statement. The campaign framing is Reuters' reporting; Ukraine's silence on this specific strike is stated in the same report.
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Why this label: The company's own statement, via Reuters. 'Not aware of any casualties' is the company's account, carried with that attribution — no independent casualty assessment exists for this strike.
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Why this label: The regional head's own statement, via Reuters — carried as the responsible official's account of the response and the nearby damage.
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Why this label: The loss figure is Ozon's own published expectation (an estimate, not an audited loss), and the share price is the Moscow exchange figure in Reuters' report.
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What we know / what we don't know yet
What we know
- What the company and the regional head say happened at Adygeysk — the fire, the evacuation, no known casualties, the paused deliveries — from their statements via Reuters, and the campaign's cost as Ozon itself published it last week.
What we don't know yet
- The extent of the damage inside the Adygeysk hub and how long it will be out of service — neither the company nor officials had published an assessment when this page published.
- Ukraine's account of the strike — Kyiv made no comment on this attack in the reporting read.
- Whether the 709 drones Russia's defence ministry says it downed overnight is accurate — that figure is the ministry's own count and is not carried as a claim on this page.
Why it matters
The strike shows how far the air war now reaches into ordinary commerce: a parcel hub serving civilian shoppers is a deliberate target in a campaign that has already cost Russia's two biggest online retailers billions of roubles, and each new hit lands days before the Abu Dhabi talks that are supposed to de-escalate the war.
Background
Ukraine begins its drone campaign against Russian retail logistics, hitting Wildberries warehouses; strikes spread to Ozon sites from August.
Ozon's financial results release puts expected drone-attack losses at 30.1 billion roubles across 11 sites.
A Ukrainian drone strike sets fire to the Adygeysk hub for the second time; staff are evacuated and no casualties are known.
Update history
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Story published as a brief from queue #1554 (Arab News; worked from Reuters' report, read in full in this pass, resting on Ozon's and the Adygea head's own statements). JUDGE AUDIT: headline, slug and summary state the same outcome — a strike and a fire at the Adygeysk hub; every number traces to Reuters or to Ozon's own release (30.1bn roubles across 11 sites); the 'no casualties' wording stays attributed to the company; Russia's 709-drone tally is excluded as an unverified belligerent count and named in the don't-know list. The hero is a labelled file photo of an Ozon warehouse in Yerevan, not of Adygeysk.