An industrial plant in Kramatorsk was damaged, said Pavel Kirilenko, head of the Ukrainian-controlled Donetsk Regional Civil-Military Administration. Kirilenko talked about this on his Telegram channel.
“In Konstantinovka, the blow fell on the industrial zone,” he wrote.
Earlier, the head of the Kharkiv regional administration Oleg Sinegubov in the city of Merefa said: was coming two explosions
Prior to that, the Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava and Kharkiv regions of Ukraine, as well as the Donetsk People’s Republic and Zaporozhye region under the control of Kiev, announced weather alarm. It was recorded that sirens sounded at 00:07 (MSK).
On February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he had decided to conduct a special military operation in Ukraine in response to a request for assistance from the presidents of the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics.
The decision to run the operation became the justification for new sanctions against Russia by the United States and its allies.