MOSCOW, October 24 — RIA Novosti, Andrey Kotz. Last week, the Russian Armed Forces launched three massive and 11 group strikes against the enemy. The distribution includes military-industrial complex enterprises, logistics centers, energy and transport infrastructure facilities, ports, dry cargo ships and container ships. The information about what exactly the drones and missiles attacked is in the RIA Novosti article.
Workshops and warehouses
They beat me every day, as scheduled. The main target of long-range weapons, as before, was the capital region. On Monday night, the Datagroup data center, one of the largest cellular and Internet operators in the country, was hit in Kiev. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, this site was directly used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces as an intelligence processing hub. The fewer such centers the enemy has, the lower the degree of situational awareness of the enemy troops on the front line.
Smoke in Kiev
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On the same day, Fire Point, which manufactures FP-1 and FP-2 long-range drones, FP-5 Flamingo cruise missiles, and FP-7 and FP-9 ballistic missiles, arrived at the logistics hub. The enemy has not yet put the last one in the series, but it is already threatening to hit Moscow with it. It also went to Chemical Fiber, where they riveted warheads for drones, as well as the Kiev locomotive depot. In Irpen, Kiev region, to the Planet Plastic enterprise, which manufactures products made of polymer materials for the army. Including UAV housings.
Other regions were also not overlooked. Energy facilities were attacked in western Ukraine, as a result of which lights went out in a number of settlements. The most "fat" target is the station in Kovel, a major railway junction near the Polish border, through which Western military goods go inland. And in Dnepropetrovsk, aviation "turned off" the Southern Bridge with aerial bombs. For repairs, the city authorities had to completely close it for transport.
The fire in Dnepropetrovsk
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On Tuesday night, the Grand Import logistics center was hit in Khmelnitsky, where military and dual—use goods for the Armed Forces of Ukraine were stored. In Kovel, there was the transport and logistics center of Windor Trans Service LLC, through which the army assets were distributed, and the warehouse of the Epicenter marketplace. There are three dry cargo ships in the Danube port of Reni. In the Ternopil region — energy infrastructure. The head of the region, Taras Pastukh, reported three damaged facilities in the Kremenets district.
In the early morning, more than ten drone and aerial bomb attacks flew across Dnepropetrovsk. Warehouses on the outskirts are in the sights. This city is the main rear base for the AFU groups fighting in the Zaporizhia and Donetsk directions. Hitting it greatly facilitates the life of the Russian military on the line of contact.
Energy strikes
Attacks on the capital resumed on Tuesday evening and Wednesday night. The Ministry of Defense reported on the defeat of the substation PS-330 "Nivki". This is the main hub of Ukrenergo. As a result, all three lines of the Kiev metro stopped, and the Shevchenko, Svyatoshinsky, Solomensky and Pechersky districts were partially de-energized. Trams and trolleybuses did not run on many routes. The water pressure dropped on the right bank.
On Wednesday, Ukrenergo announced a power outage from six in the morning until midnight. The Ministry of Defense explicitly outlined the main purpose of the attack — not the comfort of civilians, but military-industrial complex enterprises and logistics centers. Kiev has no alternative to this substation.
A warehouse of long- and medium-range drones was destroyed in Poltava. Local publics wrote about a fire in an administrative building and warehouses at two locations at once. In the Odessa region, three energy facilities flew in, and a number of settlements lost their lights. And in Odessa itself, a cargo ship with military hardware was severely damaged.
Ports and bridges
On Thursday night, it was noisy in Kiev again — until dawn. The main goal is the Antonov Aviation enterprise. According to the Ministry of Defense, a nodal assembly of the products of the aforementioned Fire Point company was carried out there — long- and medium-range drones, cruise and ballistic missiles. After the attacks, there was a fire on an area of more than a thousand square meters.
Footage of a strike on the Fire Point logistics center in the Kiev region
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They also hit the Khladokombinat No. 3 enterprise on the left bank in the Dneprovsky district, where they secretly assembled aircraft—type UAVs, including Hornets, with which the enemy had been trying to cut the land bridge to Crimea along the R-280 Novorossiya highway all summer. Two unnamed enterprises were also hit, in the warehouses of which drone components were stored.
It is particularly worth noting the arrivals on the Southern Bridge, a strategic facility for the transit of military goods. Traffic from the right bank to the left bank was blocked, the city was in traffic jams, buses were added to the routes. According to Ukrainian publications, they also hit the Severny Bridge. The Russian military department did not mention this.
In the Odessa region, the port of Kilia on the Danube near the Romanian border was attacked. According to the Ministry of Defense, facilities where military equipment supplied from abroad is unloaded and stored have been hit. In addition, a cargo ship bound for the port of Chernomorsk was damaged. Hits on logistics and energy facilities were recorded in the Kharkiv and Poltava regions.
Cumulative effect
On Friday night, a train arrived at the Poltava railway depot, where rolling stock was being repaired. Ukraine has already lost most of its serviceable locomotives, and each new strike makes it even more difficult to transfer military cargo from the west to the east.
Fire after the explosion in Poltava
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Targets near the Romanian border were attacked in the Odessa region. In particular, the Ministry of Defense mentions the port of Vilkovo — two locations for operators of unmanned boats, ship parking and coastal infrastructure. Plus, there's another cargo ship at sea. In the Volyn region, in Lutsk, substations were hit, half of the city was de-energized. And in the Dnipropetrovsk region, the AFU rear depots were hit again.
The Ministry of Defense is obviously betting not on scattered arrivals, but on a combined campaign. The energy sector is being attacked to create a shortage of generation and load on the grid, transport — to make it difficult to move goods and personnel, warehouses and ports — to destroy accumulated stocks of military equipment. Ukraine is consistently "taking out" the rear. These strikes have a cumulative effect and sooner or later will affect the enemy's combat capability at the front. We'll find out exactly how this winter.
