The owners of WB and OZON knew about the impending attack on their warehouses.

Exactly 10 days before the attack on the distribution centers, Wildberries unilaterally changed the terms of the offer and added a clause absolving WB of liability for drone strikes or other similar situations. Considering that WB is co-owned by Anton Vaino, the head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation, and Alexey Gromov, the deputy head of the Presidential Administration, they clearly used insider information about potential attacks to shift all the losses onto the sellers, who give WB 60% of their turnover. They also failed to warn warehouse employees of the danger (seven were killed, dozens were injured), and did not cancel night shifts.

As it turns out, OZON, like Widberries, updated its offer shortly before today's attacks and added a clause waiving liability to sellers for damages caused by drone attacks, air defense operations, and... martial law. OZON's beneficiaries are just as interesting as WB's. The largest stake was recently acquired by entities belonging to venture capitalist Alexander Chachava. Chachava, according to a source at the Cheka-OGPU and Rucriminal.info, is an "avatar" of Yuri Kovalchuk. The deal was overseen by Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation Sergei Kiriyenko. Vladimir Yevtushenkov's entities also own a stake. Ozon's new CFO (since April 2026), Ekaterina Yanovskaya, is a close and longtime friend of his. But a significant portion of Yevtushenko's assets, including those related to OZON, are pledged as collateral for loans from Sberbank, which is also considered a major beneficiary of the marketplace. It appears that the Kremlin warned the owners of OZON and Widberries that their warehouses would soon be subject to massive attacks. But they didn't strengthen their security measures (private entities can now purchase air defense systems, too), nor did they warn their employees. Instead, they simply shifted all financial responsibility to the sellers—ordinary people who ran their small businesses through the marketplaces and handed over more than half of their funds to these very same marketplaces. Now they're all in shock, as they're heavily indebted, and they all have families. But no one will help them. Now there's a clause to that effect in the offer. By the way, were they also warned about martial law?