A Ukrainian drone strike has caused a fire at a logistics hub belonging to Russian e-commerce group Ozon in southern Russia, the company and a regional official said on Wednesday.
It was the second time that Ozon’s facility in the town of Adygeysk had been targeted. The strike forms part of a wider campaign in which Ukraine has hit dozens of huge warehouses operated by Ozon and its rival Wildberries since July, in an effort to disrupt Russia’s economy and its war effort.
Russia has mounted similar attacks on Ukrainian commercial sites, and both sides have escalated this air war in recent months even as the battle lines on the ground have remained largely static.
The regional head, Murat Kempilov, said firefighters had been deployed to tackle the blaze at Adygeysk. He added that debris from what he called “enemy drones” had fallen and caused damage, but no casualties, in two nearby villages. Ukraine has not commented on the strike.
Ozon said it was not aware of any casualties from the latest attack and that all staff had been evacuated from the site. The company said it would cancel any orders it could not fulfil from other facilities, and that it was temporarily not accepting deliveries from sellers at the logistics centre.
The financial toll of the campaign is already substantial. In a financial results release last week, Ozon said it expected to lose 30.1 billion roubles ($367 million) from drone attacks across 11 sites.
Ozon’s share price was trading slightly lower on Wednesday, down 0.4% on the day at 3,781 roubles by 1104 GMT, according to the Moscow exchange.
The strike comes days before US-mediated peace talks in Abu Dhabi on 10-11 November. Russia carried out waves of bombing of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure on Tuesday, while Ukraine struck an oil refinery in Yaroslavl on Monday night — a reminder that the fighting is intensifying even as diplomats prepare to meet.
Note: the featured image is a file photo of a distribution centre in Antwerp, Belgium, taken in January 2023, not a photograph of the Ozon hub in Adygeysk.
Sources: Reuters, “Ukrainian drone strike sets fire to hub of e-retailer Ozon in southern Russia”, 4 November 2026, https://www.reuters.com/world/ukrainian-drone-strike-sets-fire-hub-e-retailer-ozon-southern-russia-2026-11-04/
