Ukraine struck a major industrial facility in the Russian city of Volgograd, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday, while a Russian drone attack killed a man in Ukraine鈥檚 northeastern Sumy region overnight.
Ukraine has on Russian military industries and energy facilities, aiming to cut Moscow鈥檚 revenue for the war and make Russians feel the consequences of the invasion, now in its fifth year.
The campaign, which Zelenskyy has said aims to bring Russian President Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table, has and military deliveries, stalling Moscow鈥檚 efforts on the battlefield and heaping pressure on Putin, Western officials and analysts say.
Writing on X, Zelenskyy said that FP-5 Flamingo missiles hit the Titan-Barrikady facility in Volgograd in southwestern Russia, describing it as a 鈥渕ajor industrial complex鈥� where Russia 鈥減roduces artillery systems and specialized military equipment, including components for missile launch systems.鈥�
According to Ukraine鈥檚 General Staff, the facility manufactures equipment for missile systems, including self-propelled launchers and transport-loading vehicles for the Iskander-M missile system, which it said is 鈥渢he same system Russia regularly uses to strike Ukrainian cities.鈥�
Volgograd Gov. Andrei Bocharov confirmed an attack on a business in the region鈥檚 Krasnooktyabrsky district, saying 10 people had been wounded and taken to a hospital. He said production facilities at the site were damaged but did not identify the company.
Ukraine’s state security service said Saturday morning that Ukrainian forces also struck an oil pumping facility in Russia鈥檚 Vladimir region that supplies fuel to Moscow, for the second time this month.
The attacks came a day after Ukraine launched what appeared to be one of Kyiv’s biggest drone assaults since the Kremlin鈥檚 more than four years ago. The major nighttime attack targeted a dozen Russian regions, Russian-held Crimea and the surrounding seas, Moscow鈥檚 Defense Ministry said Friday, noting that Russian air defenses intercepted 660 Ukrainian drones.
said Thursday he had ordered 鈥渁 40-day influence operation,鈥� believed to mean an escalation of attacks, aimed at 鈥渃ompelling (Russia) to end the war鈥� after over the past year yielded no breakthrough.
Meanwhile, in Ukraine鈥檚 Sumy region, a 66-year-old man was killed in a Russian drone strike on a private residence in the region, regional head Oleh Hryhorov said Saturday.
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