The Russian marketplace Wildberries plans to commission two large logistics complexes in Kazakhstan with a total area of over 260,000 square meters in the first quarter of 2027, according to Kazakhstan’s Minister of Trade and Integration Arman Shakkaliyev.
“In the first quarter of next year, the company is carrying out construction and installation work on a facility of about 160,000 square meters in Almaty. And in Astana, there will be a facility of about 100,000 square meters,” the minister said at a briefing at the Kazakh government on August 4.
According to him, these projects are part of the previously announced development program for Wildberries’ Kazakhstani division. Currently, the company leases approximately 46,000 square meters of warehouse space in the country.
Shakkaliyev also noted that Wildberries has not submitted any new requests to the Kazakhstani authorities regarding the search for or opening of additional warehouse facilities.
However, official data on the distribution of space among cities contradicts the minister’s statements. A statement published by the Kazakh government indicates that the Wildberries logistics hub currently under construction in Astana will have an area of 160,000 square meters, not 100,000 square meters.
Investments in the Astana complex are estimated at 47.7 billion tenge. The project is expected to create approximately 6,000 jobs, and construction is also scheduled for completion in the first quarter of 2027.
Representatives of the merged company RWB had previously reported that a 160,000-square-meter facility is under construction in Astana, and a complex covering more than 100,000 square meters is being built near Almaty. Thus, the total area of the two centers will indeed exceed 260,000 square meters, although the final distribution of space between the cities still needs to be clarified.
The cost of the Wildberries logistics center in Almaty was previously estimated by the Kazakhstani authorities at 43.2 billion tenge. The exact completion date for this facility was not specified in the relevant announcement.
The new centers are expected to expand the marketplace’s capacity for receiving, storing, sorting, and delivering goods within Kazakhstan. Expanding the local warehouse network may also reduce delivery times and increase the number of Kazakhstani entrepreneurs operating through the platform.
In 2025, the volume of retail e-commerce in Kazakhstan, including marketplaces, reached 3.769 trillion tenge. Sales through marketplaces accounted for 3.238 trillion tenge, or 86% of the total e-commerce market.
Wildberries is one of Kazakhstan’s largest e-commerce platforms. Previously, the Ministry of Trade reported on plans by Wildberries and Ozon to build three fulfillment centers in Astana and Almaty with a total area of 291,000 square meters and a combined investment of 101.3 billion tenge.
Given the energy situation in Ukraine, the warehouses of the state-owned enterprise ‘Forests of Ukraine’ have accumulated over 220,000 cubic metres of firewood, which is enough to provide for the social sector, the population and the military, the press service of the state-owned enterprise reported on Telegram.
‘The situation in the energy sector is extremely difficult. We have high hopes that Ukrainian cities will withstand it. But we are preparing for any scenario. (…) Procurement continues uninterrupted, and despite the extremely complicated logistics, the warehouses are constantly being replenished,’ the state-owned enterprise emphasised.
According to information from ‘Forests of Ukraine,’ despite prolonged power outages, there has been no significant increase in demand for firewood. Since the beginning of 2026, forestry enterprises across the country have sold only 15,000 cubic metres.
The state-owned enterprise emphasised that it considers fuel supplies to the Armed Forces of Ukraine to be no less of a priority, which are also being fulfilled in full in accordance with the terms of the contracts. If necessary, foresters are ready to increase supplies.
‘Forests of Ukraine’ assured that it would leave prices for social firewood unchanged until the end of the heating season and advised households to start thinking about the next season and replenish their stocks in advance.
Ukrzaliznytsia will take humanitarian cargo to its warehouse in Lviv for further shipment by rail to Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipro, Zaporizhia and Odesa.
“The priority types of cargo are medicines, hygiene products, long-term storage food, clothing, bottled water, baby products [food, diapers, etc.], sleeping bags and mats,” Ukrzaliznytsia said on the Telegram channel.
The company asks to provide goods in whole packages, preferably on pallets.
Cargoes are accepted at the address: Lviv, 2 Shyroka Street.
The volume of new supply on the warehouse and logistics real estate market in Ukraine in 2021-2022 will amount to 364,000 sq m, while about 200,000 square meters is to be commissioned in the market of Lviv and the region, according to a study by Alterra Group.
“The leader is Lviv, where it is planned to put into operation about 200,000 square meters. In Kyiv, it is planned to introduce those projects that were predicted back in 2019 and 2020. In the regions, most of the premises planned for commissioning by developers are occupied by post offices and logistics companies,” Dmytro Kovalchuk, the co-owner of Alterra Group, said during the web conference on the analytics of the warehouse real estate market.
So, in Kyiv, the volume of new supply in 2021-2022 will amount to 71,400 square meters, among the planned projects, in particular, are the warehouse FM Logistic (17,000 sq m), Sun Factory 2 (23,400 sq m), Makarovsky of ADG developer (15,000 sq m).
Among the objects in Lviv are the expansion of the Protec warehouse in Zymova Voda by 40,000 sq m, the warehouse Lvivsilmash (42,200 sq m), a project from Galileo Logistic (45,000 sq m), Port Lviv Logistic Center (40,000 sq m).
According to the company, postal operators will continue to actively develop, the total construction volume of which will be about 158,000 square meters. Among the projects announced in 2021 is the expansion of the Nova Poshta network in Dnipro, Odesa, Kyiv with a total area of projects of 37,000 square meters, the construction of Ukrposhta logistics terminals in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Lviv, Dnipro and Odesa (22,000 sq m each), the expansion of the distribution center Mist Express in Lviv to 11,000 sq m.
Alterra Group is engaged in complex services for commercial real estate, development and consulting. The company’s portfolio includes 31 projects with a total area of 117,500 square meters.
The purpose of the planned lease of the Arctica warehouse complex in the village of Sofiyivska Borschahivka near Kyiv by PJSC Myronivsky Hliboproduct (MHP) from the Dragon Capital group of companies is to store MHP products, the press service of the company has told Interfax-Ukraine.
“MHP does not buy the Arctica warehouse complex owned by Dragon Capital, but leases it. Ukrainian legislation requires permission from the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine to be obtained for lease as well,” MHP said, commenting on the consideration of the concentration case started on January 11 by the committee.
MHP is the largest chicken producer in Ukraine.
At the end of 2020, the supervisory board of MHP made a decision to establish MHP Logistics.
The founder and majority shareholder of MHP is Ukrainian businessman Yuriy Kosiuk
The distribution chain UkrAgro NPK and Nika-Tera sea terminal (Mykolaiv), both are parts of Group DF, have jointly opened the first agricultural supermarket – a wholesale and retail warehouse store of agricultural products in the territory of the port.
Group DF said in a press release on Friday, July 31, that the outlet is fully equipped for reception, storage, packing and shipment of goods. Its targeted audience includes customers of the port and farmers from Mykolaiv and Odesa regions.
“At the beginning, the assortment of products includes various types of nitrogenous and mixed fertilizers that fit various types of package. We plan to gradually extend the assortment by seeds, plant protection agents, and other chemicals. In future we will sell other goods and services that are necessary for farmers, agricultural producers, traders,” Director General of UkrAgro NPK Volodymyr Dovbnia said.
The new outlet de jure is an official representative office of PJSC UkrAgro NPK.
UkrAgro NPK is a large chain of warehouses selling mineral fertilizers in Ukraine. It has been a part of Group DF since 2012.
