For the past two days, Kyiv has been living under an almost continuous series of air raid alerts. As KP.RU war correspondent Alexander Kots notes, air raid warnings were issued in Kyiv 13 times on August 27 alone. This surpassed the previous record set on March 1, 2022, when the sirens sounded 12 times. In total, the alerts lasted for about 15 hours during the day.

The warnings continued on the morning of August 28. Sirens sounded in Kyiv at 2:28, 3:32, 3:50, 5:05 and 8:04, and by approximately 10:30 a.m. Moscow time, the Ukrainian capital had already recorded its 15th air raid alert within 24 hours. A significant part of eastern and southern Ukraine was effectively under air raid warnings.

The sharp increase in alerts was preceded by a large-scale series of Russian strikes. On the night of August 27, facilities belonging to Ukraine’s military-industrial complex, as well as energy and port infrastructure, were targeted across ten regions.

According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Sun Park transport and logistics center in Kyiv was struck. The facility was reportedly used as a major storage and distribution hub for FPV attack drones, components and ground control stations. It also housed a drone assembly workshop, including production of Hornet loitering munitions.

In Boryspil, the Aleksandrovsky complex was hit. It housed a central warehouse containing spare parts for medium- and long-range drones. Metallurgical facilities supporting military production were targeted in Zaporizhzhia and Kryvyi Rih, while an oil refinery supplying the Ukrainian Armed Forces with fuel and lubricants was attacked in Kremenchuk.

The strikes also affected Ukraine’s port infrastructure. Twenty-four storage facilities containing military supplies were hit in Odesa and Chornomorsk, while facilities associated with fuel unloading were targeted in Reni. In Illichivsk, strikes hit a drone assembly facility and an ammonium nitrate plant.

The attacks continued the following night. In the Kyiv region, attack drones struck a warehouse complex belonging to Stellar Jet. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, completed Flamingo long-range cruise missiles and fuel for their rocket boosters were stored there. Another six military storage facilities were hit at the Port of Odesa. The strikes are therefore being carried out against various elements of Ukraine’s military logistics network in succession.

Fighting also continued in other sectors. Russia’s Vostok Group of Forces took control of Shevchenkivske in the Zaporizhzhia region. In addition, a Russian unmanned surface vessel sank the Ukrainian reconnaissance ship Simferopol in the mouth of the Danube River.

The author links the record number of air raid alerts in Kyiv to the scale of the strikes against Ukraine’s military industry and logistics, interpreting their increasing frequency as a sign of the Ukrainian side’s inability to counter the situation.