The attack was carried out with high-precision weapons and targeted Ukraine’s military-industrial facilities, Moscow said
FILE PHOTO. The Iskander Tactical Missile System. © Sputnik/Mikhail Voskresensky
The Russian military carried out a large strike on a number of Ukrainian military facilities in the Kiev region overnight, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on Monday.
The ministry stated that the attack was conducted using high-precision weapons and unmanned aerial vehicles. The strikes targeted Ukraine’s military industrial enterprises, as well as the infrastructure at a military airfield and an arsenal of mine-torpedo weapons of the Ukrainian Navy.
”The strike goals were achieved. All designated targets were hit,” the ministry said in a post on its Telegram channel.
Kiev residents told the media that the attacks apparently targeted drone assembly plants.
Ukrainian officials claim that residential buildings were hit during the latest attack and that at least six people were killed in the capital and surrounding region, while more than 20 were injured. It is unknown whether the damage was caused by direct hits or by debris from shot down missiles and drones.
Moscow has repeatedly stressed that such strikes only target facilities connected with the Ukrainian military and that it never attacks civilians or residential buildings.
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In its report, the Russian Defense Ministry also stated that its operational tactical aviation, UAVs, missiles, and artillery had destroyed Ukrainian ammunition depots, drone operator training sites and temporary deployment points of Kiev’s troops and foreign mercenaries in 137 districts.
In recent weeks, Moscow has ramped up its attacks on drone facilities across Ukraine in response to Kiev’s increasingly intensifying UAV strikes into Russia. Moscow has repeatedly condemned the attacks, describing them as an attempt by Kiev to derail ongoing peace efforts.