Ozone shares fall after Ukraine attacks. Peskov promises Russia will retaliate

Ozon shares plunge after Ukrainian attacks, Kremlin vows retaliation.

Ozon shares fell 28.5 percent to 2,129 rubles at the start of the main trading session on the Moscow Exchange. At the same time, the Moscow Exchange index fell to 2,092 points at the beginning of trading, which is 2 percent less than at the end of the previous trading session.

This is happening against the background of the third consecutive day of strikes by Ukrainian military forces on Ozon warehouses in various regions of Russia. Ozon shares are included in the calculation database of the largest and most liquid securities on the Russian stock market.

Earlier, the Ukrainian Armed Forces also repeatedly struck the warehouses of another major Russian marketplace, Wildberries. However, unlike Ozon, Wildberries shares are not listed on the exchange.

Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russian troops would launch new strikes on Ukrainian territory in response to the attacks on the ozone layer. “Kiev feels the response every day, every night, and will continue to feel it,” he told reporters.

Peskov also cited an interview with Vladimir Putin, noting that Kiev had “opened Pandora’s box, let the genie out of the bottle” by striking “civilian facilities and logistics infrastructure” in Russia. According to the Russian presidential spokesman, such attacks by Ukrainian drones will not have any impact on the dynamics of the processes on the front line, which “everyone is watching.”

**Details of the attacks on Wildberries**

Since July 18, Ukraine has attacked Wildberries complexes in the cities of Elektrostal near Moscow (250,000 square meters), Kotovsk in the Tambov region (108,000 square meters), Krasnodar (100,000 square meters), Nevinnomissk in the Stavropol region (94,000 square meters), as well as in the cities of St. Petersburg, Leningrad region and Ryazan.

Most of the goods in the warehouses were purchased on credit, taxes were paid for them, and obligations to suppliers remained. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky explained the attacks on Wildberries by the fact that parts for drones and navigation equipment were stored in the warehouses.

Wildberries has begun paying compensation to sellers affected by the Ukrainian attacks. Although the company's offer exempts the marketplace from liability for drone attacks, the company's head Tatyana Kim said that they "will not abandon sellers." The economic damage is estimated at at least 180 billion rubles. Meanwhile, it was previously reported that Wildberries was looking for a warehouse in Kazakhstan due to drone attacks.