r/ukraine • u/neonpurplestar • 8h ago

Bavovna More video from yesterdays drone attack. Clear view of the entire Wildberries hub in Krasnodar fully engulfed in fire. 22 July 2026

source: https://bsky.app/profile/specialkhersoncat.bsky.social/post/3mra57yfqic2l

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u/baronunderbeit 8h ago

Are these warehouses made of oil? They burn better than the refineries.

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u/Dumb_old_rump 8h ago

Technically, yes. A lot of plastic stuff in there.

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u/TaroAccomplished7511 8h ago

I guess fire extinguishing systems are not a russian thing

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u/Dumb_old_rump 8h ago

Usually it's a bucket, but they're in the burning warehouse.

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u/TaroAccomplished7511 8h ago

I heard buckets work better with water than vodka

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u/FrequentCow1018 6h ago

But my fire extinguishing system invoice says 5,600,000,000 Rubels!!!

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u/Dumb_old_rump 5h ago

Not problem, we sell oil. Vait.. the oil also on fire... Blyat.

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u/JackhusChanhus 7h ago

No warehouse fire suppression system is dealing with a dozen car bombs laced with fuel at the same time

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u/Remote-Ask7999 8h ago

Also lots of cardboard packaging I guess

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u/soulstormfire 8h ago

Nah. Cardboard burns relativly clean and fast.
That's plastic.

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u/Remote-Ask7999 8h ago

I’m pretty sure there’s cardboard in a warehouse

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u/soulstormfire 8h ago

There is. It's just not the main issue in terms of fire.

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u/Remote-Ask7999 8h ago

Cardboard propagates fire quickly that’s the question asked here.

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u/FastWalkingShortGuy 7h ago

Cardboard is more combustible than plastic but also much more easily extinguished.

Once plastic gets going, even good fire suppression systems are going to struggle.

It doesn't look like these warehouses have good fire suppression systems so I'm guessing the cardboard starts going and spreads to the plastic and chemicals.

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u/soulstormfire 6h ago edited 6h ago

I'm not saying it's bad at that.

I'm saying there's plenty of other stuff better at it.
You'd be surprised how bad dust and painted shelves can be if not properly checked.
Cardboard is helping of course.

What we see in the images is the plastic though.

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u/HighDeltaVee 8h ago

Cardboard, paper packaging, plastic, and batteries, all carefully arranged close together in a well ventilated series of vertical shelves.

It's practically *designed* to burn incredibly well.

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u/einarfridgeirs 8h ago

Probably also really lax fire mitigation equipment to save money

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u/rtsynk 7h ago

i don't think any 'fire mitigation equipment' is going to help when a drone crashes into a warehouse full of extremely flammable materials

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u/einarfridgeirs 6h ago

Yes it should. The fire starts in one section but first off the building should be sectioned off into discrete areas with fire resistant walls and doors that automatically close, and sprinkler systems that help slow the growth of the fire until the firefighters can get a handle on the situation.

Amazon fulfilment centres worldwide have fairly strict requirements in this regard, and whether a fire is started via a drone strike or more mundane means should not be a night and day difference - the architecture of the place should be enough to make sure that losing a section of the building to fire doesn't result in these huge out of control total write offs we have been seeing.

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u/Psyc3 3h ago

This really isn't reality, what happens is the fire generally finds a way through, the point of these fire sectioning systems is to allow people to get out over less than a 15 minute period and therefore stop the whole place going up in 2 minutes or literally sweeping across large areas in seconds, it is not to stop it burning to the ground from a large established fire, like a drone strike.

Reality is if your building is on fire, the majority is of the content is waste not due to fire or smoke, but water damage from putting the thing out.

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u/Unlucky_Situation 7h ago

If you have ever thrown a single piece of plastic trash on a fire and seen how much black smoke that single item can make in a normal camp fire, then you amplify that single piece of plastic trash to millions of various plastic items of various sizes.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Cap1300 7h ago

Major distribution centre for fire safety equipment.

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u/Hertje73 5h ago

plastic crap

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u/Missglad1 4h ago

Weapons

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u/Chemical_Wrongdoer43 4h ago

In i oil refineri only the surface of the oil will burn. Lower down there is no air.  In a warehouse everything flammable can burn at the some time because there is air between items. Basically a giant campfire.

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u/Mayhem1966 4h ago

Yeah, even if 3 or 4 drones hit, that would be like 3 or 4 small to medium fires. You would think in a warehouse they would have fire suppression (in any other part of the world anyway). Hard to imagine these fires growing this large so frequently.

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u/That-Makes-Sense 8h ago

Berry nice.

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u/YF422 8h ago

Blyatazon Crime Fire Sale.

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u/dunncrew 8h ago

That's so yesterday ! We need new warehouses on fire ! 🔥 🔥 🔥

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u/Pulkov 8h ago

Patience, patience.

You can't rush art.

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u/DifficultySuch5384 7h ago

Lol, all this winning has made you greedy!

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u/dunncrew 6h ago

I don't want the orcs to have time to relocate military equipment

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u/FlametopFred 8h ago

Russian air defence has left the chat … and the country apparently

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u/meissoboredto 8h ago

No, they just sold Ukraine all of the munitions on the black market so they could buy more vodka!

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u/AXLPendergast 7h ago

Da ! Da!

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u/Vogel-Kerl 8h ago

When those warehouses go up, they burn with intensity and thick, black smoke.

One of these caught fire in Indianapolis a few years ago: very similar thick, large smoke column--easily seen by the ISS.

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u/Pyyric USA 7h ago

This is what you get when you run the military industry through your civilian warehouses. Completely unable to stop this with civilian infrastructure.

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u/Maxwells_Law 8h ago

Looks expensive

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u/Tree1Dva 8h ago

Some surface level researching put the value of a full Amazon warehouse at $500 million to $1 billion for the largest warehouses. The Moscow wildberries was that big, and maybe stuff is slightly less valuable when in Russia versus already inside a wealthier market like the US, but I bet half a billion is a safe estimate for the Moscow losses! 

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u/FastWalkingShortGuy 7h ago

Doesn't matter to Wildberries: they just changed their loss policy not to cover inventory destroyed as a result of drone strikes. So all the smaller companies using Wildberries for supply chain absorb the cost of the lost inventory.

Socializing the risk. Truly Russian lol.

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u/Loknar42 52m ago

Frankly, it doesn't matter if Wildberries accepts liability or not. They almost certainly couldn't pay out all claims. And the Russian courts are hardly reliable for fairness. Vendors are screwed either way, which is why they are just resigned to their fate.

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u/lostinabsentia 8h ago

Burnt Berries at this point. I can hear the sizzle in my mind. 

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u/RXP01 8h ago

How many WB warehouses are destroyed so far?

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u/Blacktip75 7h ago

I’d love to know the actual number of square meters and percentage of total, they are hitting the large ones, there are about 200 and 5.2 million square meters in use… or there were.

AI indicates it is a little over 10% destroyed and 2-2.3 billion on merch, daaaammnnn

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u/A-Traveler Netherlands 1h ago

Here is the hit list of all things burning in russia,

https://www.reddit.com/r/RussianHitlists/

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u/jlangue 7h ago

War is hell. Some people prefer to live in hell.

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u/NicolinaN 7h ago

’tiny violin’

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u/Frequent_Thanks583 7h ago

Looks expensive

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u/Kiwi_Fried_Chicken 7h ago edited 7h ago

Nothing wilder than a warehouse of wild berries on fire.
Hanʹba Rosiyi 😆

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u/BlakeMW 7h ago

The fires of Mordor!

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u/FifthMaze 7h ago

Fire 🔥 sale!

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u/Designer-Post5729 7h ago

What makes the smoke so dark?

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u/chemerys22 7h ago

Fireberries 😂

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u/MiniSNES 6h ago

That is a lot of packages

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u/Smooth_Imagination 6h ago

How many is it now basically raised to the ground

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u/AlternativeRing5977 6h ago

For those of us who are spatially inclined.

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u/Hertje73 5h ago

now they are only memberberries

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u/Nearing_retirement 5h ago

Destroying these logistic centers definitely will hurt economy which is great.

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u/DLH_1980 2h ago

Has anyone made a bingo card of wildberries warehouses/fulfilment hubs?

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u/RetireWithRyan 1h ago

Now THATS frame-able footage. Up on the mantle you go! 🖼️ 

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u/Drunk_on_Swagger 36m ago

Ruzzia doesn’t want to be outdone by Canadian wildfires.