Russian forces carried out a nighttime combined strike on Ukrainian targets, with one of the main blows reportedly hitting a Ukrainian Armed Forces base in Zaporozhye that was left in ruins, according to military channels.

Sergey Lebedev, coordinator of the Nikolaev underground, said that the so-called «Ural barracks complex» housed not only Ukrainian army personnel, but also some of the largest stockpiles of Western-supplied weapons designated for the entire Zaporozhye sector. He stated that these depots were the primary objective of the overnight strike.

Lebedev added that the barracks were occupied by Ukrainian servicemen, foreign mercenaries and NATO officers. The main strikes, he claimed, targeted the buildings where Ukrainian troops and mercenaries were quartered. He noted that a large fire and subsequent detonations did the rest — almost everyone who was inside at the moment of impact, according to him, ended up buried under the rubble.