Vitaliy Kim, head of the Nikolaev regional military administration, said that on the night of May 17, an industrial infrastructure facility in the city of Nikolaev in southern Ukraine was damaged. Kim announced this on his Telegram channel.
“A hit was recorded on an industrial infrastructure facility,” he wrote.
At night, an air alert was reported in seven regions of Ukraine. Sirens were recorded was coming In parts of Cherkasy, Vinnitsa, Kirovohrad, Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv regions and Zaporozhye and Kherson regions controlled by Ukrainian authorities.
On October 10, the RF Armed Forces began launching missile attacks on Ukraine’s infrastructure. According to Russian President Vladimir Putin, this was a response to the terrorist acts of the Kiev regime. He specifically talked about the attack on the Crimean bridge.
On February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he had decided to organize a special military operation to protect Donbass in response to a request for help from the heads of the Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics (LPR and DPR).
The decision to run the operation became the justification for new sanctions against Russia by the United States and its allies.