Russia says its overnight strike on Ukraine hit 10 military factories in Kyiv

Moscow: Russia's Defence Ministry said on Tuesday that its massive overnight strike on Ukraine which authorities there say killed at ‌least ⁠18 people ⁠had hit ten military production facilities in Kyiv, including some factories producing attack drones.

Russia had also struck three recruitment centres for the Ukrainian ⁠armed forces ‌in Kyiv, the Defence Ministry said in ⁠a statement.

It said the attack was in response to a Ukrainian drone attack on a student dormitory in Russian-controlled Luhansk in eastern Ukraine last month which ‌killed 21 people and injured a further 42 "as well as other ⁠terrorist attacks on civilian infrastructure."


Ukraine denies targeting the dorm and said it was targeting a drone command centre in the area.