Russia’s Defense Ministry issued a statement July 6 reporting that a “massive overnight precision strike” had been launched against Ukraine, TASS reported.
“Last night, in retaliation to the Kiev regime’s terrorist attacks on Russian territory, the Russian Armed Forces delivered a massive strike by ground-based, airborne and seaborne long-range precision weapons and attack unmanned aerial vehicles on military-industrial enterprises, fuel and energy sites in Kiev and the Kiev Region, and also the infrastructure of military airfields in the Dnepropetrovsk, Poltava, Cherkassy, Chernigov and Kiev Regions,” the ministry said in a statement.
The massive bombardment of Kiev was the third one since Moscow’s warning in May that it would make “consistent and systemic strikes at enterprises of the Ukrainian defense industry in Kiev,” to stop Kiev’s ability to attack civilian targets in Russia. As with the bombing the night of July 1-2, the Russian Ministry of Defense published a list of last night’s targets. Among the ones in Kiev were the drone-maker Abris PT; other companies that make UAV (drone) components, armor, and USV (marine drones); and the electronics and guidance-system plant Kvant. A strike on the Vizar factory in Kiev Region, which makes and services missiles and long-range UAVs, led to a spectacular secondary detonation that sent projectiles into the air, which then fell back to the ground and touched off fires. City and regional authorities reported that at least 22 civilians were killed in the strikes.
