On February 8, Ukrainian Defense Forces have reported precision attacks on Russian military infrastructure, including targeting both facilities in temporarily occupied Ukrainian lands and those within Russia. The Ukrainian authorities explained that the attacks were within a long-term operation to weaken the capability of Russia to make offensive attacks.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in a statement claimed that the attacks targeted logistics, deployment center of troops, drone control systems, and infrastructure involved in missiles. As Ukrainian military leaders claimed, the operations were to interfere with supply chains, deconcentrate manpower, and limit missile launch and support functions that were being used to attack Ukrainian cities.
It is one of the verified strikes that happened at the early hours of February 8, in the area of the settlement of Rozyvka, Zaporizhzhia region, which is still under Russian occupation. The Ukrainian troops struck a Russian logistical base where it is storing and dividing supplies to the front line troops. Those in charge of the military indicated that destruction of these depots has a direct impact on the capacity of Russia to maintain combat operations in the region.
On the day before that (February 7), Ukrainian forces attacked a Russian concentration around Krasnohirske, also occupied Zaporizhzhia. The General Staff claimed that the strike was intended to decrease the number of Russians in the region and restrict the possibility of movements of forces as well as reinforcement of the positions at the front.
A strike in the Donetsk region destroyed another Russian unmanned aerial vehicle control center near Novoekonomichne, which is in the Russian control currently. The officials of Ukraine stated that the first goal is to disable UAV command nodes because the Russian troops depend on drones extensively to conduct reconnaissance, artillery targets and coordination of battlefields.
There were also confirmed reports of the previous strikes on Russian soil by Ukraine with destruction of the State Central Inter-Service Training Ground called Kapustin Yar in the Astrakhan Oblast in Russia. The Ukrainian estimates were that a number of major facilities were destroyed there, and this was a technical complex where medium range ballistic missiles could be serviced, an assembly hall and a logistics warehouse.
Kapustin Yar is a ministry of defense run facility which has been linked to the testing and development of missiles. The Ukrainian officials reported that the site has been associated with the attacks of the Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missiles, which have been used to strike Ukrainian cities like Dnipro and Lviv in 2024-2026.
Independently, Ukrainian officials cited a previous drone attack on one of the sanctioned industrial plants in Redkino, in the Russian Tver region. It is estimated that it makes fuel elements of Kh-55 and Kh-101 cruise missile. The plant allegedly ignited a flame following the strike where satellite-based fire detection systems confirmed that there was a fire in the location.
Ukrainian officials emphasized that the damages and Russian casualties were still being assessed, but that the attacks are part of a larger plan of systematically destroying logistic centers, manpower centres and missile systems in Russia to diminish its ability to sustain the war.