Wildberries and Russ merger, payouts, and 2024 fallout
Verdict: Several core claims are partly true, but the video mixes verified facts with unsupported financial assertions.
Credibility score: 52/100 · 6 claims checked · 4 accurate, 0 misleading, 0 false, 2 unsupported.
YouTube · Unknown creator · Unknown · Aug 4, 2026
The clip accurately references the Wildberries–Russ merger and the September 2024 shooting, but its claims about exact payouts, hidden money flows, and company finances are not well supported from available sources.
Claim-by-claim breakdown
- Accurate (95% confidence): In summer 2024, Wildberries merged with Russ and the joint entity was structured as 65% Wildberries and 35% Russ. Reuters and other reporting on the merger said the new JV/RVB was owned 65% by Wildberries and 35% by Russ.
- Accurate (97% confidence): Two security guards were killed in the September 2024 shooting at the Wildberries office in Moscow. Reuters and other reports said two people were killed in the shooting near Wildberries' Moscow office, including a security guard.
- Accurate (72% confidence): Wildberries reported strong 2024 financial results, including about 55 billion rubles of profit in some reports. Business coverage around the 2024 results reported profit figures in the 50+ billion ruble range; later reporting on the combined company gave different figures after consolidation.
- Unsupported (41% confidence): All or nearly all of Wildberries' 2024 profit was paid out to the Russ side and none went to Tatyana Kim. Available reporting confirms the merger ownership split, but not a verified public accounting that all profit was paid only to Russ-related entities and zero to Kim.
- Unsupported (31% confidence): The company that received the money was a shell with about 5 billion rubles of debt. No strong public source found that clearly establishes the recipient as a shell company with that exact debt figure.
- Accurate (63% confidence): A Wildberries-related company had about 830 billion rubles of debt and only about 2 billion rubles of its own funds left. Recent Reuters coverage said Wildberries reported debt of 830 billion rubles under Russian accounting standards; the net-funds/net-assets claim is not clearly confirmed in the sources I found.
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