Ukrainian forces on Tuesday struck a key plant producing missile components in Russia’s border region of Bryansk, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said.
Ukraine’s military said British Storm Shadow missiles were deployed against the Kremniy El factory and posted a video which it said showed explosions and a fire at the plant.
The facility produced critical missile components, it said.
Photo: General Staff of Ukraine Armed Forces / Handout via Reuters
“Our fighters struck one of the important Russian military factories in Bryansk,” Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address, referring to a report from Armed Forces of Ukraine Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi.
“The plant produced electronics and components for Russian missiles. The very missiles that strike our cities, our villages and civilians,” he said.
The governor of Bryansk region, Alexander Bogomaz, said on Telegram that six civilians were killed and 37 injured, and posted a video showing him at the scene.
Bogomaz made no mention of the plant in what he described as a “terrorist missile attack.”
The Russian Ministry of Defense yesterday said its forces shot down two Storm Shadow missiles over the past 24 hours, RIA news agency reported.
Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on Tuesday said the strike was premeditated and directed against civilians, and urged the UN to assess what had occurred.
The Ukrainian military’s general staff, posting on Telegram, described the plant as “a critically important link in the chain of production of Russian high precision weapons,” producing semiconductor devices and integrated microchips.
“The target was hit and significant damage to production facilities was recorded,” it said. “The extent of the damage is being clarified.”
The video posted on Telegram showed aerial images of a series of explosions and large fires over a large area near woods.
Meanwhile, Russian drone strikes on the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv killed two people and wounded seven more, local authorities said yesterday.
Separately, mobile Internet outages in Russia are to last as long as “necessary” to ensure citizens’ safety, the Kremlin said yesterday, after network disruptions were recorded in Moscow and other Russian cities.
“As long as additional measures are necessary to ensure the safety of our citizens,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, when asked at a daily briefing about how long the outages would last.
He also accused Ukraine of using “increasingly sophisticated attack methods” and said that “more technologically advanced countermeasures are needed” to counter them.
Additional reporting by AFP
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