The Russian Defence Ministry said on the night of the 1st to early 2nd that
Russian forces launched large-scale strikes on Ukraine using air-, land- and
sea-based long-range precision weapons, including hypersonic ballistic missiles
and attack drones. Targets, it said, included Ukrainian defence-industrial
enterprises, fuel storage and transport facilities, and military airports. In
precision strikes aimed at Kyiv the ministry said 10 firms producing attack
drones and other military products were hit and three local recruitment centres
were damaged. It also reported damage to defence firms outside Kyiv in
Zaporizhia, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Sumy, Khmelnytskyi and Poltava, and said
support infrastructure at six military airports was destroyed. The statement
added that tactical aviation, strike drones, missile troops and artillery struck
133 training ranges, long-range drone launch sites and temporary deployment
points of Ukrainian forces and foreign mercenaries.
