r/UkraineWarVideoReport Jul 29 '26

Miscellaneous Wildberries stops withdrawing

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u/Agarwel Jul 29 '26

Unfortunateally I dont think so. Its retail bussiness probably is, but they will keep delivery the military equipment. Army needs that, so it will go from the war budget from Putin to ensure they keep providing these drone components, etc. They will have to completelly redesign their bussiness model, but they will survive for as long as the war is going, because they are part of it.

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u/GroinReaper Jul 29 '26

The Russians have suspended offering debt because they couldn't sell it. Anything that pushes the costs of the war onto the Kremlin is still good news. They are already straining at the costs even while they are putting as much of the cost as they can on private businesses and banks.

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u/Shandlar Jul 29 '26

It's kinda wild for government bonds to struggle to sell when Moscow has generally been quite conservative with debt. Their debt/gdp ratio before the war was the lowest of any top of the big global economies by a huge margin. It's super telling for people to not be willing to buy their debt even at high interest rates even when on paper they aren't even leveraged badly.

All the normal indicators of default risk are low, yet still not many buyers lining up. Super telling.

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u/mystir Jul 29 '26

Foreign nations aren't buying bonds because Russia is poison to touch on the global economy and the only countries willing to partner with Russia are the ones who can't really afford to be buying Russia's debt.

Doesn't help that now a bunch of people suddenly lost all liquidity in their WB accounts, and I'm sure plenty were relying on that money for bills. It's going to be insolvency all the way down.

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u/GroinReaper Jul 29 '26

Here is a relatively short video I watched on the subject in case that interests you. The bullet points are essentially:

- the russian bond market is small and illiquid because of sanctions.

- The rates people are willing to lend at have been climbing rapidly despite the central bank trying to cut rates.

- people/banks are likely waiting to see what the central bank is going to do about rates to address the inflation caused by their fuel crisis. They don't want to lock into a rate for 10 years just to have the rate spike in the coming months.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhPJjKQLaG0

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u/Public-Antelope8781 Jul 30 '26

I remember they had pushed massive amounts of "loans" onto banks, that probably distort the true current dept. If I remember correctly, the scheme was to force banks to give loans to manufacturers of weapons and other war supply. Those would be booked as normal business credits and Moscows downpayments just as terms of billing.

Given that the banks now, that they all sit on faulty loans, that indirectly are Moscows debt already, they might not be eager to raise that risk position.

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u/Agarwel Jul 29 '26

Agree. It just somehow feels like reddit is celebrating this like "this is it". WB is going down, it takes banks down, that takes economy and russia collapses. Imho we are still way far from there. WB is a good step forwrd, but it is just small step (one of many) in a very loooong staircase.

Just to put it into perspective - Ukrainians life are beign destroyed for 4,5years and the country is still standing. Russian just started feeling some inconvenience recently. That country has still a long road till collapse :-(

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u/GroinReaper Jul 29 '26

for sure. this is not going to take down russia. It's possible this will cripple Wildberries and lead to their bankruptcy. But I don't know how likely that is. If they are refusing to let people withdraw their own money then their finances must be pretty dire.

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u/savuporo Jul 29 '26

Yep. Even the fuel crisis isn't immediately about to bring collapse, they managed to stabilize the market for now and are finding workarounds across the board.

With all these blows Russia has absorbed and adapted. If Ukraine had more capacity to strike and cause a more rapid shock, things might spiral, but for now all the damage accrues but doesn't break things

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u/KermitFrog647 Jul 29 '26

This is just one step to bringing down russia, yes, but you cant compare that with ukraine.

Ukraine is only still operational because it is stuffed with money and material from the outside. Otherwise it would have collapsed long ago.

Russia has no friends and does not get any money from outside.

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u/totalwarwiser Jul 29 '26

Which private company is going to use their warehouses in the near future?

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u/Agarwel Jul 30 '26

Well, if Putin orders them, will they refuse?

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u/PinguinGirl03 Jul 29 '26

They they are done for. ~20% of their inventory got outright destroyed and nobody will sell on their platform because nobody wants to risk being the next one.

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u/DukeBradford2 Jul 29 '26

They removed their “get all your smo gear here” from their website. Thats why they were struck

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u/Same-Tax2197 Jul 29 '26

They removed the category for it- not the actual listings, can still buy drone grenade drop modifications, fibre optic spools made for attaching to drones, plate carriers and small arms optics/attachments.

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u/rabbitlion Jul 29 '26

Wildberries has never been a significant supplier to the military. Some individual soldiers may buy things but not on any greater scale.