Russian Drone Attack Wipes Out Another Ukrainian Medicine Warehouse

Russian drones have destroyed another large warehouse storing medicines for one of Ukraine’s biggest pharmaceutical distributors in an overnight strike on the city of Dnipro, according to Ekonomichna Pravda on November 15.

One of the country’s largest pharmaceutical distributors, Optima-Pharm, lost a warehouse in Dnipro when Russian forces attacked the city with drones, damaging industrial facilities, warehouses, production sites, and cars, the Dnipropetrovsk regional prosecutor’s office said.

The company’s chief financial officer, Artem Suprun, said all staff at the affected site were safe, stating that “the company’s employees were not injured,” and added that the total financial losses from the new strike were still being assessed.

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The Dnipro strike is the latest in a series of Russian attacks on Optima-Pharm’s logistics network in recent months. In late August and again on the night of October 25, Russian missile strikes on Kyiv destroyed the company’s central warehouse and office complex, wiping out an estimated 20% of Ukraine’s monthly stock of medicines stored there, with losses valued at approximately $100 million.

Following the October destruction of the Kyiv hub, the Health Ministry said it “does not forecast a shortage of medicines” at the national level, citing large reserves across the network and the capacity of other distributors, although it acknowledged a risk of temporary disruptions in some regions.

Earlier, it was reported that a large-scale overnight drone attack targeted Odesa, Chernihiv, and Kharkiv, damaging industrial facilities and warehouses and killing two people.

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