The Russian Ministry of Defense announced on Feb. 7 that “in response to terrorist attacks launched by the Kiev regime against civilian infrastructure facilities on the territory of Russia, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have delivered a massive strike with high-precision long-range naval and air-based weapons, including Kinzhal air-ballistic hypersonic missiles, as well as unmanned aerial vehicles against energy and transport infrastructure facilities used for the benefit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, enterprises of the Ukrainian defense industry that produce attack UAVs, as well as store and pre-launch areas at military airfields.”
According to the Ukrainian count, Russian forces launched more than 400 drones and about 40 missiles. “Every day, Russia could choose real diplomacy, but it chooses new strikes,” Ukraine’s acting president Volodymyr Zelenskyy posted on X, reported Reuters. “It is crucial that everyone who supports the trilateral negotiations respond to this. Moscow must be deprived of the ability to use the cold as leverage against Ukraine.”
The Russian strikes, which included targets in Western Ukraine, triggered a NATO air defense response in Poland that temporarily forced the closure of the Lublin and Rzeszow airports, which have both since reopened. There was no violation of Polish airspace, the Polish army’s operational command said.
