On the night of September 21, 2026, the Russian armed forces carried out a massive strike on Odesa Oblast. Among the targets hit was the distribution center of the Silpo supermarket chain in Odesa. This was reported by the company's press office and confirmed by several Ukrainian media outlets, citing a Silpo statement on Facebook. According to RBC-Ukraine, the impact set the warehouse premises on fire, and more than 80 rescuers were dispatched to extinguish it.
Strike on logistics infrastructure
The Silpo distribution center in Odesa is a key logistics hub of the chain, supplying stores in the southern part of the country. As the company noted, Russian military forces hit precisely the warehouse premises, which led to a large-scale fire. According to RBC-Ukraine, these warehouses had previously been subjected to a Russian attack, making the new strike part of a systematic impact on Ukraine's logistics infrastructure. The fire was contained and extinguished by more than 80 emergency service personnel who worked for several hours.
Casualties and operational consequences
According to Liga.net and Focus.ua, six employees of the distribution center were killed as a result of the shelling. Silpo confirmed the fact of the strike in its statement and reported that the company is assessing the scale of the damage and reconfiguring its logistics processes to minimize the impact on the retail network's operations. The specific timeline for restoring warehouse operations and the extent of the material damage were not disclosed at the time the statement was published.
Contradictory data
In the initial statement by Silpo's press office, cited by RBC-Ukraine and Interfax, the emphasis is on the company "assessing the consequences and reconfiguring processes," while the number of fatalities is not directly stated. At the same time, Liga.net and Focus.ua, citing the same or supplementary sources, report six dead employees. The difference in the presentation of the information may be explained by the fact that the company's first statement was operational in nature and focused on production consequences, while data on the casualties was confirmed as the emergency services completed their work at the scene. At the time of preparing this article, both versions coexist: the fact of the strike and the fire is confirmed by all sources, while the figure of six dead is recorded by two independent publications.
Context: a series of attacks on Silpo facilities
The strike on the Odesa distribution center is not an isolated incident. In November 2025, Russia destroyed a Silpo supermarket in Kharkiv with shelling: the roof inside the store collapsed and part of the building was destroyed. In addition, on the night of August 5, 2026, Russia carried out a missile-and-drone attack using ballistic missiles, in which the main impact fell on Kyiv Oblast, where people were killed, and logistics hubs and warehouses came under fire. Thus, the attack on the Silpo warehouse in Odesa fits into a broader picture of targeted strikes on Ukraine's logistics and retail infrastructure.
At this point, Silpo is continuing its work to assess the damage and restore its supply chains. The company has promised to publish official data on the full extent of the destruction and the timeline for resuming normal operations of the distribution center as the expert assessment is completed.
