Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) launched a precision drone strike on Russia’s Arzamas Instrument-Building Plant in Nizhny Novgorod, a key military-industrial facility supplying components for cruise missiles used against Ukrainian cities.
Nizhny Novgorod Oblast is located in central Russia, northeast of Moscow and lies about 760 kilometers (471 miles) from Ukraine’s border.
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The plant is part of Russia’s military-industrial complex and manufactures gyroscopic devices, control systems, onboard computers, and other components — including those used in Kh-32 and Kh-101 cruise missiles – missile routinely launched by the Russian military to strike Ukrainian cities.
The plant is under sanctions from the EU, the US, Ukraine, and New Zealand.
According to preliminary reports, at least four SBU drones hit the facility, which belongs to the Tactical Missiles Corporation, a key state-owned enterprise supplying Russia’s missile program.
“Military-industrial facilities in Russia that contribute to the war against Ukraine are entirely legitimate targets. The SBU continues its work to demilitarize sites that produce weapons for the terrorizing of peaceful Ukrainian cities,” a security service source told Kyiv Post.
The strike underscores Ukraine’s growing capability to conduct precision attacks deep inside Russian territory, disrupting the production chains of weapons used against civilians.
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Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed its air defenses destroyed 32 Ukrainian drones overnight across several regions, along with another seven on Sunday morning.
In Tula Oblast, Governor Dmitry Milyaev reported that 12 drones were shot down, but a civilian facility in the city of Tula was hit. Two people were killed and three others injured, he said. Tula is located about 370 kilometers (230 miles) from the Ukrainian border.
Earlier on Monday, Kyiv Post reported that on Sunday, Aug. 10, Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence Directorate (HUR) carried out a long-range drone attack on the Lukoil-Ukhtaneftepererabotka oil refinery in Russia’s Komi Republic — more than 2,000 kilometers (1,243 miles) from the Ukrainian border.
Sources in HUR told Kyiv Post the targeted facility plays a key role in supplying Russia’s occupying forces with fuel and lubricants.
According to HUR, the strike hit an oil products reservoir, causing a spill, and damaged a gas and gas condensate processing unit used to produce propane-butane and gasoline.
Kyiv stresses that it operates in accordance with international conventions and targets only military objectives, including oil refineries that supply the Russian army.
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