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The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation released another comment on today’s waves of strikes in Ukraine, revealing the targets of the attack. The Russian military officially confirmed that the targets included both military and energy infrastructure facilities that provides for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The targets of the strike included electrical substations in Kiev, Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytsky, Dnepropetrovsk, Poltava, Mykolaiv, Kirovograd and Odessa regions.
Gas compressor stations in Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk and Kharkiv regions, which ensure the functioning of the gas transportation system of Ukraine, were also damaged.
In addition, the storage sites of aviation weapons transferred to Kiev by Western countries at airfields in the Kiev and Dnipropetrovsk regions were attacked.
All designated targets have been hit, as a result of power outages, railway transportation of weapons and ammunition to the line of contact has been disrupted, the Russian Ministry of Defense concluded.
Ukrainian sources are sharing more and more footage of the damage caused by Russian strikes throughout the country. Thus, more targets were clarified.
As a result of precision strikes in the Kiev region, Russian missiles struck the engine room on the dam of the Kiev water reservoir near the town of Vushgorod on the northern outskirts of the capital. A large fire broke out as a result of the attack. The Kiev HPP, a key element in the region’s energy system, was seriously damaged, which led to the shutdown of electricity generation at the facility.
More strikes destroyed industrial facilities used for production of aviation ammunition in the city of Kiev.
Several Ukrainian facilities came under attack in the village of Usatovo in the Odessa region. They include a large depot and the local large energy substation.
Railway infrastructure was heavily damaged in the border Sumy region.
In the Vinnytsya region, Russian forces struck Ukrgasvydobych facilities in the settlement of Bazilovshchina. As a result of the attack, a pumping station and 12 railway tanks with combustible substances caught fire.
At least eight missiles struck the large Stryi gas storage facility and the Dashava gas field in the Lviv region.
The large energy substation that came uner Russian strikes throughout the country include:
- station in Usatovo in the Odessa region
- Khmelnitskaya 330
- Zhitomirskaya 330
- Severnaya 330
- Vinnytsya 750 and Bar 330
- Trikhaty 330 in the Mykolaiv region
- Pervomaiskaya 330 in the Dnepropetrovsk region
- Kievskaya 750
- Kremenchugskaya 330
- Zapadnoukrainskaya 750.
Read another detailed overview of Russian strikes launched on August 26 HERE.
