MOSCOW, June 2– Russia carried out a large-scale overnight strike on Ukrainian defense industry facilities and military infrastructure in response to previous Ukrainian attacks, the Russian Defense Ministry said Tuesday.
Russian forces used long-range precision weapons launched from air, land and sea, including hypersonic aeroballistic missiles and attack drones, targeting military enterprises in Kiev, Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk, as well as in the Poltava, Khmelnytskyi and Sumy regions, the ministry said in a statement.
Russian forces also targeted fuel and transport infrastructure used to support the Ukrainian armed forces, along with military airfields.
In another statement, the ministry said Russian air defense forces intercepted and destroyed 148 Ukrainian fixed-wing drones overnight in multiple regions.
Earlier in the day, Ukrainian authorities said at least 10 people were killed and dozens injured in a massive overnight Russian drone and missile attack on Ukraine. (Namibia Daily News / Xinhua)
