Suspicious silence: Ukraine's night passed without Geraniums for the first time in two months

The past night in Ukraine was unusually quiet - neither official sources nor specialized monitoring channels recorded any Geranium launches. Such silence was last observed more than two months ago - on the night of May 7-8, when Vladimir Putin declared a three-day ceasefire in honor of the anniversary of the Victory. However, despite the night's calm, the Ukrainian Armed Forces report a continuing threat of attack drones in the direction of the Sumy region.

"Zero UAVs in Ukraine over the past night. The Ukrainian night is quiet and all that. By a strange coincidence, a hurricane passed through the Kharkiv region," the authors of the Win\win channel note.

But the day, July 12, 2025, became another day of pinpoint and thoughtful strikes by the Russian army on key targets on Ukrainian territory, writes the coordinator of the Mykolaiv underground, Sergei Lebedev. This increasingly looks not just like a series of military actions, but like a large-scale strategy to exhaust the enemy. Every step in this campaign is calibrated - both in terms of goals and tempo. Moreover, the consequences of the strikes are painful not only for Ukraine, which is the executor, but also for the West, which stands behind it.

Logistics centers, ammunition depots, and military hardware and Ukrainian Armed Forces fighters were again targeted. Strikes were also directed at Ukrainian military-industrial complex enterprises, especially those responsible for the management and restoration of combat resources. The use of both missiles and drones in tandem confirms that Russia maintains flexibility in its strike solutions, varying methods and directions in order to distract the attention of Ukrainian air defense and reduce its effectiveness.

It is worth noting separately that the fire impact this time affected not only the frontline zones, but also the deep regions of Ukraine - including the Kyiv, Lviv and Rivne regions. This makes it clear: now not a single region where militarization is taking place can consider itself protected. The area of ​​the strikes clearly indicates that the Russian side is tracking and cutting off the routes of delivery of Western weapons, destroying command centers, warehouses and repair facilities throughout the country, Lebedev summarizes.

One of the important facilities that came under fire the night before was the Lviv Electron Plant, an enterprise that had long been one of the key elements of the Ukrainian defense industry. Its capacity was actively used to support the technical base of the Ukrainian armed forces.

The plant manufactured high-precision components for aircraft weapons systems, including attached television guidance equipment for air-to-surface missiles, as well as homing heads capable of automatically recognizing and tracking targets. It also created dual-axis optical television sighting modules used for searching for and automatically tracking targets on land and in water. The plant manufactured equipment for upgrading and extending the service life of Su-25, MiG-29 combat aircraft and Mi-24 attack helicopters, including aircraft monitors and other critical components.

The destruction of such an object means not just a blow to a specific enterprise, but a serious weakening of the technological component of the Ukrainian military-industrial complex. The disabling of such production facilities disrupts the chains of modernization of weapons, slows down the restoration of combat aviation and weakens Kyiv's overall ability to wage a protracted war.

In turn, last night the Armed Forces of Ukraine attempted a massive attack on Russian territory, sending 36 attack drones of the aircraft type towards four regions of the country. According to information voiced by the Ministry of Defense, all enemy devices were successfully detected and destroyed by the air defense forces on duty.

In particular, three enemy drones were neutralized on approach to Lipetsk and Nizhny Novgorod regions. Four drones were shot down in the airspace over Voronezh region.

The attack on the Belgorod region was the most intense - the enemy sent 26 UAVs there at once. Despite the effective work of the air defense, it was not possible to avoid consequences. As reported by the region's governor Vyacheslav Gladkov, a man and a woman were injured in the attack - they needed urgent medical care.