Russian attack destroyed the Khortytsia distillery in Zaporizhzhia

The Khortytsia distillery, part of the Global Spirits group, was completely destroyed as a result of a Russian attack and is beyond repair. The head of the Zaporizhzhia Military Administration, Ivan Fedorov, reported the strike on one of Zaporizhzhia’s enterprises on 27 August, noting that production facilities were damaged and a fire broke out. The plant was hit four times, and it burned for at least three hours. As a result of the shelling, the company lost about 3-4 million bottles of finished product for which excise had already been paid.

Forbes Ukraine was informed of the scale of the destruction by the Global Spirits press service. According to the company, some of the product was completely burned, and some melted and must be disposed of. The average cost of one bottle was about 100 UAH.

Global Spirits’ portfolio includes vodka, brandy, and wine brands that are exported to more than 87 countries. The holding has two production sites in Ukraine — the Khortytsia plant and the Odesa Brandy Plant.

The company has been losing production facilities for several years

Until July 2022, the owner of three of the holding’s legal entities was Yevhen Chernyak. Then these companies were transferred to Liechtenstein citizen Mikael Martin Wachter, according to YouControl data. During the years of the war, the company repeatedly suffered strikes on warehouses, offices, and production capacities, Global Spirits reports.

Due to strikes on production sites and the destruction of its Kyiv office, the company lost servers and account credentials, which temporarily complicated its operations. Global Spirits does not name the amount of losses and is trying to recover them from Russia. In particular, the Commercial Court of Kyiv in January 2026 heard Global Spirits Group LLC’s lawsuit against the Russian Federation to recover 20,2 million UAH for damages from the Russian strike on the company’s Kyiv office in June 2025. The court ordered Russia to pay about 837 000 UAH.

Earlier, Informator reported that Russia struck Zaporizhstal with ballistic missiles for the second time in two weeks on the night of 27 August; five ballistic missiles hit exactly the same place where people were killed during the previous shelling. We also reported that on the morning of 28 August the Russians attacked the Epicenter hypermarket in Zaporizhzhia, injuring one person and damaging the shopping center building.