The temporary ceasefire timed to Victory Day celebrations ended on the night of May 12, after which the Russian Armed Forces resumed strikes on military facilities across Ukraine. Incoming reports suggest that the main focus was Dnepropetrovsk Region, where railway infrastructure and fuel-and-energy sites were hit.

Near Dnepropetrovsk, a strike reportedly targeted a locomotive hauling railcars loaded with shells. Ukrainian social media users posted images of thick black smoke rising over the tracks. Train traffic in the region was temporarily suspended after the incident.

Another notable target was a group of fuel tanks at the sleeper impregnation plant in the city of Samar. A Telegram channel run by Sergey Lebedev, coordinator of the pro-Russian underground in Ukraine, said the type of facility and the location of the strike suggest it may have been an intermediate fuel storage point connected to military logistics.

In Krinichki, Russian Geran drones attacked a gas station. A major fire broke out at the site after the strike.

By the morning of May 12, reports of impacts had also begun coming from Zaporozhye Region. Lebedev cited eyewitnesses who said four strikes had just hit the area near Balabino, producing heavy smoke.

According to his information, a military unit is located near Balabino, where fighters of the Ukrainian territorial defense had until recently been undergoing training.

Another strike hit a solar substation in Pokrov, Dnepropetrovsk Region. Reports said the facility was struck by three Geran drones at once. Lebedev suggested that this could point to a new stage of the strike campaign, with pressure now being applied to Ukraine’s reserve and distributed energy infrastructure, which Kiev had tried to use as an adaptation to earlier attacks on larger facilities.

Explosions were also recorded in Nikolayev, Vinnitsa and Khmelnitsky regions on the morning of May 12. Former Rada deputy Oleg Tsarev wrote on his Telegram channel that Ukrainian monitoring resources had counted 216 drones launched from Russian territory.

Later on May 12, the Russian Defense Ministry said Russian forces had carried out strikes on Ukrainian military airfields, ammunition depots and fuel storage facilities. The ministry also reported that operational-tactical aviation, attack drones, missile troops and artillery had hit temporary deployment points of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 56 areas.