Drone Strike Hits Ozon's 40,000-Square-Meter Orenburg Hub as 82,000-Square-Meter St. Petersburg Warehouse Burns
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Updated · Kyiv Post · Aug 23
Drone Strike Hits Ozon's 40,000-Square-Meter Orenburg Hub as 82,000-Square-Meter St. Petersburg Warehouse Burns
3 articles · Updated · Kyiv Post · Aug 23
Summary
More than 300 employees were evacuated after drone debris ignited a fire at Ozon’s logistics center in Orenburg’s Orenbuzhye special economic zone, forcing the company to halt deliveries from the site and hide its inventory from sale.
Russian officials said several UAVs were intercepted over the industrial area and the blaze was later extinguished, but the hit disrupted a hub that opened in 2024 after more than 4 billion rubles in investment.
In Kolpino near St. Petersburg, EMERCOM gave a separate fire at the Logistera warehouse a level-4 complexity rating, saying flames spread across 82,000 square meters; local authorities did not declare a drone or missile threat.
The Orenburg strike hit a facility planned to expand to handle 915,000 orders a day, underscoring growing pressure on Russian logistics infrastructure.
The fires followed Aug. 22 strikes on Ozon facilities in Samara and a broader Ukrainian campaign that has also hit oil, port and military sites across Russia and occupied Crimea.