Ozon Panicked

The company is preparing for attacks on logistics hubs following the incident involving Wildberries.

Ozon, Russia’s second-largest marketplace by sales volume, has begun moving high-value goods from its warehouses to order pickup points (OPPs) amid disruptions to Wildberries’ logistics infrastructure, reports The Moscow Times.

This was reported by the specialized channels “Blue Dawn” and “Delivered!” According to their reports, the marketplace’s sellers began receiving a flood of orders for expensive, uninsured goods from unknown legal entities. At the same time, the deliveries were processed within the districts where the sellers were registered. Later, Ozon sent a message to sellers: “We have moved some of your goods from warehouses to pickup points. You won’t have to pay for this. We’ll provide details later.” The company has not officially commented on this information.

Ozon has 47 logistics complexes and more than 170 sorting centers across the country. Most of them are leased. None have been hit by drone attacks so far. However, the situation with Wildberries has already affected Ozon—on July 20, the company’s stock price plummeted by 14% to 2,484.5 rubles, its lowest level since December 2024. By July 30, they had recovered some of the losses and rose to 2,984 rubles, which is 12.6% lower than a month ago. Along with Ozon, Russia’s largest grocery chains are preparing for possible strikes on their warehouses. According to Kommersant, Magnit, X5 (the Perekrestok, Pyaterochka, and Chizhik chains), as well as Lenta, Metro, and Vkusvill may require suppliers to deliver goods directly to stores instead of sending them to distribution centers.

The retailer Krasnoye & Beloye, for its part, has introduced a supplementary agreement that relieves it of liability for destroyed goods in the event of force majeure. This includes, among other things, drone attacks. The company stated that the initiative is driven by the need to ensure the stability of supplies amid heightened risks to warehouse and logistics infrastructure.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) began striking Wildberries’ logistics centers on July 18. As of August 2, the total area of the company’s warehouses that had been attacked reached 1.21–1.47 million square meters. According to Data Insight’s calculations, 893,000–1.154 million square meters were damaged, representing 17.2–22.2% of the marketplace’s publicly stated 5.2 million square meters of logistics infrastructure. A total of at least 18 warehouses were hit, including those in Elektrostal, Krasnodar, Nevinnomyssk, Voronezh, Yekaterinburg, and St. Petersburg. The biggest loss was a 250,000-square-meter facility in Elektrostal, near Moscow, which burned down completely.

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