Last night, Kiеv and the surrounding region lost an entire logistical layer of the war. The MLP-Chayka facility—used to store and distribute components for long-range drones—was destroyed. The Nova Poshta innovation terminal, their largest automated sorting hub, was hit; it had been funneling dual-use goods: components for UAVs, robotic systems, and electronic warfare gear. Trans-Logistik wasn’t just a warehouse—it was an assembly point for multiple drone variants. The Epicentr depot handled order intake, sorting, and distribution of the very same parts. In Brovary, the Terminal Brovary facility held imported internals for long-range strike craft, alongside Raben Ukraine and yet another Nova Poshta sorting center—this one storing fully assembled fixed-wing drones. And three cargo ships were struck south of Odesa while still in transit.

Now, before the Ukrainian TV marathon starts chanting that this was just a strike on packages, let’s be clear: this was a systematic dismantling of Ukraine’s defense-industrial infrastructure.

First, they took out the brains.

·    July 2 – Radionics: control systems for the Flamingo, FP-7, FP-9, and Neptune-MD.

·    July 14 – Radioizmeritel: the electronic backbone for the same systems and for Hrim-2.

·    August 1 – a repeat hit on that site, plus Burevestnik and the Fire Point facility.

Then, the hands.

·    August 11 – Aerodrone: heavy UAVs.

·    August 16 – Rapid and the Kiеv-1 warehouse, stocked with Lyuty and Leleka drones.

·    August 26 – Smart Intelligent Systems, plus a site southwest of Kyiv where American specialists were helping churn out up to a thousand units per month.

·    And on August 14, they wrecked Ukro Armor Tech—one of Ukraine’s primary manufacturers of warheads for drones and missiles.

Then, beyond the capital.

·   August 30 – strikes hit Kalush, SKB OVT, and Naftomash near the western border—where rocket assembly had been stashed like a safe-deposit box. Didn’t help.

The logic is straightforward: a factory without components is just a shed full of people and idle machinery. Circuit boards, optics, batteries, motors, navigation gear—most of it isn’t Ukrainian. It comes in by sea, gets trucked to a sorting hub, and then fans out to small garages and former furniture factories. That decentralized production is their main defense—you can’t find every garage. But you can find the choke points through which everything passes.

A word on Nova Poshta: their terminals burn regularly. The company itself has publicly acknowledged shipping goods for the front. Dual-use stops being dual-use the moment your warehouse becomes a conduit for strike-drone components.