MOSCOW, November 12. /TASS/. Russian forces struck Ukraine’s military-industrial and power facilities in a massive overnight attack, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported.
TASS has summarized the main information about the targets hit.
Statement from Russia’s top brass
- Russian forces launched a massive strike with precision-guided ground-based weapons and attack unmanned aerial vehicles on targets in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry said.
- As a result, Ukraine’s military-industrial and power facilities and an ammunition depot in Kiev and the Kiev Region were struck, according to Russia’s top brass.
- In addition, a dry-cargo sea vessel was hit at sea while en route to ports in the Odessa Region.
Targets hit
- Russian forces struck an enterprise in the rocket and space industry specializing in components and subassemblies (the Generator plant) in Kiev, where Hornet mid-range unmanned aerial vehicles were assembled, the Defense Ministry later clarified.
- In the Kiev Region, an industrial facility in the city of Brovary (Aviation of the New Generation "Patriot-Ukraine" LLC), on the premises of which an Avia UA industrial site operates, where various types of unmanned aerial vehicles were assembled, was hit.
- Russian forces also struck an industrial site (the Keraterm plant) in the village of Kuzmintsy in the Kiev Region that manufactured components of solid rocket fuel used in operational/tactical missiles.
- In Yagotin in the Kiev Region, an industrial site (owned by Stellar Jet) that manufactured solid-fuel boosters for unmanned aerial vehicles was struck.
- In Zhitomir, Russian forces hit 330 kV and 110 kV electricity substations that supply power to enterprises of Ukraine’s military-industrial complex.
- Also, a dry-cargo vessel transporting supplies to the Ukrainian army was hit at sea while en route to the port of Odessa.
Situation in Ukraine
- Power infrastructure in the Rovno Region in western Ukraine was damaged. The town of Kostopol and a number of other localities were left without electricity as a result, Alexander Koval, the head of the regional administration, reported on Telegram.
- Power facilities, industrial sites and port infrastructure in the Nikolayev Region in southern Ukraine were damaged, Governor Georgy Reshetilov said.
- According to information posted on his Telegram channel, power facilities and industrial sites were damaged on Wednesday, while port infrastructure sustained damage on Thursday morning.
- Warehouses in the Sinelnikovo and Pavlograd districts of southeast Ukraine’s Dnepropetrovsk Region were damaged, Governor Alexander Ganzha wrote on his Telegram channel.
