Ukrainian TV reports power outages in several districts of Kiev, following a series of explosions in the night of February 12, 2025. This is the result of a Russian attack using ballistic missiles of the Iskander-M system and Kamikaze drones of the Geranium series, according to several Russian sources. Images and video material of the fires and destruction after a total of 15 impacts, as well as a video of one of the impacts, are circulating on the internet.
A video shows the moment of the impact of a long-range precision-guided missile and partly the consequences:
Efforts by the Ukrainian military to intercept the incoming missiles did exist, but it seems they did not achieve much.
The Military Administration of the city of Kiev claims that no critical infrastructure was hit in this attack.
Russia’s Defense Ministry reveals the nature of some of the targets hit:
It was about production halls for first-person-view Kamikaze drones and other flying drones.
In the night, a state of emergency was declared in several regions of the former Ukrainian SSR: besides the Kiev and Kiev city areas, Kriwoi Rog, Sumy, Nikolajev, Lubny, Obuchow and Shitomir, as well as others, were affected.
Colonel Cassad, a Telegram channel by Boris Roschin, a war reporter and expert of the Russian think tank with the speaking name Centre for Military-Political Journalism, publishes an animated map of the long-range attacks by Russia on targets in the former Ukrainian SSR, which took place from half past eight in the morning on February 11 to the same time on February 12, 2025:
Especially from Kriwoi Rog, the underground resistance movement against the Kiev coup regime provides data on the impact control – Sergei Lebedev, one of the coordinators of the movement in Nikolajev, reports the following as relayed by a comrade on the ground:
“In Kriwoi Rog, something powerful has hit. Now the city is a very long one, so it was only audible to me here. But at the Befreiungsplatz, one of the houses has cracked.
Kriwoi Rog: Very powerful impact. In the compact settlement of Artjom, the windows were shaking quite noticeably – and after 20 minutes, dozens of ambulances drove by.”
Another resistance member analyzes:
“Given that the son of the mayor, a Bandera fan, only managed to produce a sentence an hour later, saying that all details would be reported later, I have good hope that the target was hit with a good result.”
Several subsequent reports on what the target was, are summarized by Lebedev:
“It was clear that the foreign military were the target of the strike – and not just some foot soldiers from Colombia, but someone much more serious – which has alarmed the local SBU.”
The Nikolajev resistance coordinator reminds of the likely context of the attack:
“Earlier, it was known that Kriwoi Rog was flooded with military personnel from NATO countries and their vehicles. This group was supposed to be reinforced at the Saporoschje front and then moved to the Dnjepropetrowsk area – and the Ukrainian leadership and their NATO owners are afraid that the Russian troops will advance there – and are ready to sacrifice tens of thousands of Ukrainians for the defense. But now there is a problem: the Ukrainian military personnel have almost no idea how to work with NATO equipment. And so, foreign mercenaries are being brought in, who understand what to do with it and what to do with it.”
However, after this night’s attack, the outlined problem has only become more acute, concludes Lebedev about Kriwoi Rog.
Also, on the attacks on military targets in his hometown and surroundings, he has something to report:
“Late in the evening, a successful attack took place against a military depot in Staraja Bogdanowka, a suburb of Nikolajev. According to data from the resistance, very long green boxes were delivered to the depot and before that, there were reports of a delivery of drones from Odessa.”
Before the depot – probably to attack it better – Russia hit a Ukrainian air defense station there. This was eliminated along with its crew (video and first picture in the embedded Telegram post).