Russian Media Report More Drone Strikes on Wildberries Facilities

To gauge what such a shock would mean for Amazon in the U.S., Newsweek consulted supply chain experts and estimated that a 10 percent loss of Amazon's roughly 445 million square feet of warehouse and logistics space would take about 44.5 million square feet out of action—an area bigger than Central Park. The impact would depend on where damage occurred, what facilities were hit, and how long they stayed offline. Unlike Wildberries' centralized megahubs, Amazon operates a decentralized network across eight U.S. regional systems, with 76 percent of orders fulfilled within the customer's own region.

Seçkin Özkul, director of the University of South Florida's Supply Chain Innovation Lab, told Newsweek that same-day and next-day deliveries would likely be delayed, orders split across shipments, and popular products temporarily unavailable. The real vulnerability is not so much one big distribution facility going offline, it's the cascading effect of multiple failures on the rest of the network, Özkul said, warning that multiple large facility outages in the same region could overload other hubs and lead to widespread delays, cancellations, and raised prices.