On Monday, a Russian missile strike destroyed Nova Poshta’s largest automated sorting terminal in Kyiv, according to the private postal service’s CEO, Yevhen Tafiichuk.
The terminal was the company’s most technologically advanced facility, equipped with automated parcel-sorting systems manufactured by Dutch firm Vanderlande.
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Tafiichuk described it as the first object of its kind in Ukraine, representing years of accumulated engineering expertise alongside capital investment.
“This terminal represented far more than a financial investment. It embodied the knowledge, experience, ambitions, and belief of thousands of people that Ukrainian businesses can build world-class infrastructure even in times of war,” he wrote in his Facebook post.
All employees at the site were unharmed, and the company has already activated backup operating plans to maintain continuity for deliveries.
“Today, the enemy destroyed the terminal. But they cannot destroy what matters most – the people who built it and the values upon which our company stands,” Tafiichuk added.
Nova Poshta’s automated sorting lines process parcels at the Kyiv terminal in 2021. The terminal was destroyed in a Russian missile strike on June 15, 2026. (Video by Olena Hrazhdan)
The company will compensate customers for lost shipments, and recipients will be contacted to clarify the reimbursement details, Tafiichuk wrote.
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What is so special about Nova Poshta’s Kyiv Innovative Terminal?
Built at a cost of approximately €30 million ($35 million), Nova Poshta’s Kyiv Innovation Terminal (KIT) spanned 24,000 square meters (258,000 square feet) and operated around the clock, processing up to 50,000 parcels per hour, according to Forbes Ukraine.
The facility handled 850 vehicles per day across two intake terminals – one for freight above 30 kg (66 pounds), and one for parcels below that weight.
At its core was a three-level “shell” sorting system equipped with telescopic conveyors supplied by Dutch firm Vanderlande, capable of scanning barcodes from six sides and identifying weight and destination at a rate of three parcels per second.
From intake to dispatch, a parcel spent no more than two minutes inside the terminal.
Russia’s repeated strikes on Nova Poshta’s facilities
Nova Poshta’s logistics infrastructure has been a recurring target of Russian strikes since the start of the 2022 full-scale invasion.
A Jan. 13 strike on the company’s innovative terminal in Kharkiv killed four people – two sorting center employees and two drivers employed by a partner company – and wounded four more staff.
Three further attacks between May and early June struck Nova Poshta facilities in Kramatorsk, Lymanka in the Odesa region, and Dnipro, causing varying degrees of damage without casualties.
The company has spent roughly Hr.400 million ($9.6 million) on security infrastructure since 2022, installing around 580 shelters of various types across its network, according to Forbes Ukraine.
Russia’s Monday assault included 70 missiles and 611 drones, with air defenses intercepting 632 targets in total. At least 11 people were killed nationwide.
In Kyiv, five died, and 35 were injured. Fires broke out across nearly every district, hitting residential buildings, the Dovzhenko National Film Studio, and the historic Kyiv Pechersk Lavra.
In eastern Ukraine’s Kharkiv, a double-tap strike killed five rescuers and a city emergency official as they fought a fire from an earlier attack; northeastern Ukraine’s Sumy and central Ukraine’s Dnipro were also struck.
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