Ukraine strikes key Russian explosives manufacturer, general staff says

Kyiv has besides struck retention infrastructure astatine a subject airfield, successful a uncommon aerial onslaught connected Russia.

Ukraine has struck a shaper of subject explosives heavy wrong Russian territory overnight, arsenic good arsenic retention infrastructure astatine a subject airfield successful the Lipetsk region, Kyiv’s General Staff has said successful a statement.

For their part, Russian aerial defence units downed 110 Ukrainian drones implicit the country, Russia’s Ministry of Defence said Sunday, including 1 implicit the Moscow region, 43 implicit the borderline portion of Kursk, and 27 implicit the southwestern Lipetsk region.

The Russian SHOT Telegram transmission reported that drones attempted to onslaught the Ya. M. Sverdlov State-Owned Enterprise successful Dzerzhinsk city, Nizhny Novgorod region, astir 400km (250 miles) eastbound of Moscow.

The explosives plant, 1 of the largest manufacturers of its benignant utilized by Russian forces successful the warfare that Moscow launched against Ukraine successful February 2022, is taxable to sanctions by the United States and the European Union.

Such large-scale aerial attacks are inactive comparatively uncommon connected Russia.

Kyiv’s General Staff said successful a station connected Telegram the Sverdlov mill had been making chemic components for artillery ammunition and aerial bombs, adding that it was inactive assessing the harm from its attack.

It besides said a drone started a occurrence astatine a subject airfield successful the Lipetsk region.

The Ukrainian attacks resulted successful almighty explosions and achromatic fume successful the country of the Sverdlov plant, the SHOT Telegram transmission reported.

It is unclear however galore radical were injured successful the attack, but the Nizhny Novgorod region’s politician said 4 firefighters had received insignificant shrapnel wounds successful a drone onslaught connected an concern zone, without specifying the people of the attack.

The Russian Defence Ministry added that 8 Ukrainian drones were destroyed implicit Nizhny Novgorod.

In Moscow, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said debris had fallen successful the Ramensky territory but had near nary harm oregon casualties.

Russian officials often bash not disclose the afloat grade of harm inflicted by the drone attacks, particularly connected military, transport oregon vigor infrastructure.

Meanwhile, successful Ukraine’s Kryvyi Rih, 17 radical were injured aft 2 Russian ballistic missiles deed the metropolis precocious Saturday evening, officials said Sunday. The onslaught damaged homes and businesses, section medication caput Oleksandr Vilkul said.

Ukraine’s aerial unit said Russia launched 49 drones and 2 Iskander-M ballistic missiles overnight. It said 31 of the drones were changeable down implicit 12 regions, including the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, portion different 13 disappeared from radar – suggesting they were knocked retired by physics defences.

Kyiv has often said its aerial attacks people infrastructure cardinal to Russia’s warfare efforts and are a effect to Moscow’s continued aerial attacks connected Ukraine.