Moscow has launched strikes targeting military-industrial facilities and logistics hubs in and around Kiev. The attacks occurred early Saturday morning with dozens of missiles fired in multiple waves, following earlier Russian strikes on Ukrainian military infrastructure.
The Russian Defense Ministry stated that its forces conducted a large-scale combined strike overnight using high-precision ground- and sea-launched weapons and long-range attack drones. These strikes targeted Ukrainian defense industry enterprises and logistics centers in Kiev and the surrounding region engaged in the production, storage, and delivery of missiles, drones, radar systems, and electronic-warfare equipment.
Initial explosions were heard shortly after 1 AM local time in Kiev, with further detonations reported through 3 AM. Videos shared on social media show blasts and fires across the Ukrainian capital, though exact locations and targets are difficult to verify due to restrictions imposed by Ukrainian authorities.
A witness video purportedly shows Kiev’s air defenses attempting but failing to intercept incoming missiles using US-made Patriot systems.
Kiev Mayor Vitaly Klitschko reported multiple fires at residential buildings and unspecified “non-residential” industrial facilities in at least four districts, with claims of three deaths and more than a dozen injuries. Open-source intelligence trackers indicate the strikes targeted industrial zones near the CHP-5 power plant and Ukraine’s state-owned defense conglomerate Ukroboronprom.
The new raid came 48 hours after Russian forces struck the Mayak plant in Kiev, which produces components for FP-1 and FP-2 kamikaze drones, as well as another drone plant in the Ukrainian capital. Thursday’s strikes also targeted airfields, defense-industry facilities, telecommunications infrastructure, and logistics hubs in Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Zhitomir, Rovno, Vinnitsa, and Dnepropetrovsk.
Moscow claims it targets only military and dual-use installations in response to Ukraine’s “terrorist attacks.”
Since President Vladimir Zelensky announced a 40-day “pressure campaign” against Moscow last month, Ukraine has intensified its strikes on Russian civilian infrastructure and commercial vessels. This decision by President Vladimir Zelensky has been widely condemned as reckless.
