The claims come from a single source, the Russian Defense Ministry, and have not been independently verified.
Russian forces carried out a large overnight strike on targets in Kiev and the surrounding region, according to a statement from the Russian Defense Ministry quoted by TASS. The ministry said the attack used precision-guided ground-based weapons and attack unmanned aerial vehicles against military-industrial complex, energy and transport infrastructure facilities.
Among the targets named by the ministry was the Northern Road Bridge in Kiev, which it described as being used to transport weapons, military and special equipment for the Ukrainian army. In the Kiev Region, the ministry said the Tripolskaya Thermal Power Plant, with a capacity of 1,800 megawatts, and the Kievskaya power substation, rated at 750 kilovolts, were hit. It also said the S. P. Korolev Meridian LLC enterprise in Kiev, which it says manufactures Flamingo operational-tactical and cruise missiles, was struck.
The claims come from a single source, the Russian Defense Ministry, and have not been independently verified. TASS did not report Ukrainian casualty figures, the extent of damage to the named facilities, or any Ukrainian account of the attack. Whether the bridge, the power plant, the substation and the missile enterprise were damaged, and how severely, is not yet known. Nor is it confirmed how many weapons or drones were used, or how many were intercepted.
The choice of targets is significant. A thermal power plant of that size and a high-voltage substation are the kind of infrastructure that sustains both civilian life and industrial output, and strikes on them tend to have effects that outlast the immediate attack. The naming of a bridge as a weapons-transport route points to an effort to disrupt military logistics, while the reference to a missile manufacturer suggests a focus on Ukraine's growing capacity to strike at range. Each category carries a different implication for the war's next phase, and each is harder to assess without independent reporting from the ground.
For now the record rests on Moscow's account. The strike is presented by the ministry as a success against military and infrastructure targets; the absence of corroborating detail means readers should treat the specific claims about what was hit, and what was achieved, with caution until further reporting emerges. What is clear is that the targeting of energy infrastructure in and around the capital continues, and that the coming days will show whether the damage matches the ministry's description.
