Russian marketplace Wildberries plans to relocate warehouses to Kazakhstan following Ukrainian strikes

RWB Group, the owner of the Russian online marketplace Wildberries, has begun searching for warehouse facilities in Kazakhstan following a series of Ukrainian drone strikes on the company's warehouses in Russia.

Source: Russian news outlet Kommersant

Details: According to one source cited by Kommersant, the company is looking for warehouse space totalling 100,000 sq m. Another source said RWB Group is prepared to lease all available warehouse facilities in Kazakhstan, given the limited supply.

The marketplace is seeking to protect some of its capacity from Ukrainian drone strikes.

The company is currently constructing a warehouse covering more than 100,000 sq m in Almaty, Kazakhstan. A second facility, with a total area of 160,000 sq m, is under construction in Astana and is expected to be commissioned next year.

In total, the Russian marketplace operates 209 logistics facilities with a combined area of 5.6 million sq m.

According to NF Group estimates cited by Kommersant, Kazakhstan had 1.9 million sq m of quality logistics space as of end-2025, with a vacancy rate of 5.8%. This means Wildberries will likely struggle to locate available premises.

The company is also continuing to search for new warehouses in Russia, according to Kommersant's sources in the property market. However, finding counterparties willing to lease space is becoming increasingly difficult.

The issue is not the availability of warehouse space but landlords' unwillingness to assume the risk. Once leased by Wildberries, a facility effectively becomes a potential target, and standard insurance policies for large industrial sites do not cover UAV strikes.

Background: The Russian city of Ryazan came under a drone attack: a local Wildberries logistics centre was reportedly among the targets struck.

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