KYIV, Aug. 18 -- Eleven weeks into Ukraine's campaign against Russia's largest online retailer, the tally reached a figure that Wildberries' logistics planners would not have included in any prewar risk model. Seven of the company's ten biggest warehouses are now out of operation.

Ukrainian drones struck the Wildberries facility in Koledino - a 250,000-square-meter complex described as the retailer's largest anywhere in the world - in the overnight hours between Saturday and Sunday, the latest hit in a systematic targeting campaign that began in mid-July. The strike landed inside a much larger operation: Russia's Defense Ministry said its air defenses intercepted between 187 and 201 drones over Moscow Oblast before dawn on Sunday. The ov...