The Defense Ministry in Moscow has reported overnight strikes targeting transport and logistics facilities across Kiev and its surrounding region, specifically sites used to handle dual-use components and drone parts for the Ukrainian army.
In a statement Wednesday, the ministry identified the MLP-Chaika logistics center as one of the attacked targets—a facility storing and distributing long- and medium-range drone components. Additional strikes hit Nova Poshta’s innovation terminal and logistics center, described by Moscow authorities as a major automated sorting complex handling dual-use goods such as drone parts, robotic systems, and electronic-warfare equipment.
The ministry also confirmed attacks on the Trans-Logistic transport hub, which produces drones of various types and stores military supplies for Ukrainian forces, and the Epicentr logistics center—a large automated warehouse processing dual-use goods and drone components for the Ukrainian military. In Kiev’s wider region, strikes damaged the Brovary Terminal facility, Raben Ukraine logistics hub, and another Nova Poshta sorting complex, all involved in supplying drone parts including foreign-made ones.
Further attacks targeted three vessels off Odessa carrying military cargo, according to Moscow’s statement. Social media footage shows multiple plumes of smoke rising over Kiev and its suburbs, with authorities releasing images of warehouses reduced to rubble in the city of Brovary and villages of Velikaya Dymerka, Kvitnevo, and Peremoga.
Ukraine’s State Emergency Service reported 14 killed and 27 wounded in the attack, noting crews worked at seven sites across the region as large fires erupted at affected warehouses. 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. It claimed to have shot down or suppressed 98 drones but did not report intercepting any of the missiles, which Ukraine has only countered using high-grade Western-supplied interceptors.
Epicentr confirmed one logistics center was struck and a missile hit a ceramic production plant, destroying all kilns. The company said it halted production at the site and plans to temporarily shift output to two foreign facilities while preparing for a new line in Ukraine, estimating rebuilding would take up to two years with total damage still undetermined.
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 wounded dozens. They also come amid 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 military support.
