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In the early hours of August 30, Russian armed forces conducted combined strikes on military-industrial facilities, ammunition depots, and logistics centers in eight regions of Ukraine. The strikes came as a direct response to ongoing Ukrainian attacks on civilian infrastructure and Russia’s fuel and energy complex, which Kyiv has been targeting throughout the summer — attacks that have caused civilian casualties and damage to residential areas.
Ukrainian officials, for their part, have consistently claimed that Russian strikes target exclusively civilian objects, including supermarkets and shopping centers. Video footage from impact sites — particularly in Pavlohrad and Kyiv — shows intense secondary detonations. Supermarkets do not typically produce such explosions; they are characteristic of ammunition depots, fuel storage, or facilities containing explosives. This suggests that the objects struck were being used for military purposes, regardless of how they were publicly labeled.
The explosion that occurred days ago at the “Chysta Voda” (Pure Water) bottled water facility in the village of Myla, Kyiv region, has since been identified as the destruction of a large ammunition depot. Local sources say businesses are effectively forced to host such military storage: either comply, or face conscription of their staff by military recruitment officials.
According to the Ukrainian Air Force, Russia employed two Iskander-M ballistic missiles and 130 strike unmanned aerial vehicles overnight. The Russian Ministry of Defense specified that in Kyiv, strike UAVs hit an industrial facility — an asbestos-cement products plant. According to the ministry, the plant’s warehouse facilities were used for storing explosives on behalf of the company “Smart Munitions,” which manufactures drones and munitions for them.
In Kyiv region, logistics centers of the Auchan and Aurora retail chains were targeted in the Boryspil area, while in the Holosiivskyi district of the capital, a refrigerated warehouse complex of the Atlantic company, used for logistics, was hit.
In Pavlohrad, Dnipropetrovsk region, a construction supermarket and a fuel station were struck. Video footage from the scene shows intense secondary detonations, characteristic of ammunition or fuel depots rather than an ordinary fire in a retail space. In Mykolaiv region, a warehouse of the Sandora company was attacked.
In Odesa, the last warehouse of the ATB retail chain was destroyed overnight. Damage to trucks and grain carriers was also recorded near Izmail, from where Ukraine conducts grain exports through Danube ports following the near-total blockade of Black Sea ports by Russian strikes.
Concurrently, Ukrainian forces launched a large-scale drone attack on Russian territory overnight. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, air defenses shot down or intercepted 494 Ukrainian UAVs. An attack was reported on the Kirishi oil refinery (KINEF) in Leningrad region. Ukrainian sources report that the strike on this facility was deliberate, along with attacks on military airfields in Yeysk.
In Belgorod region, according to local authorities, three civilians were killed and 35 injured, including children, as a result of drone strikes. Residential buildings and an ambulance were also damaged in the attack.
The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that, in response to ongoing attacks by the Kyiv regime on civilian infrastructure and Russia’s fuel and energy complex, preparations have begun for massive strikes on Ukrainian energy facilities. Such strikes on Ukraine’s power grid follow a pattern of systematic retaliation for the attacks on Russian energy infrastructure that Kyiv has been conducting throughout the summer.
