Ukraine said on Saturday its long-range strikes had hit a Russian military airfield and a rocket centre that Kyiv says supports Russia’s nascent satellite internet network.
Strikes Target Russian War Potential
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Flamingo cruise missiles struck the rocket facility, about 900 km from Ukraine’s border, as part of Kyiv’s campaign to pressure Moscow to end the more than four-year war by targeting sites deep inside Russia.
Ukraine’s General Staff said direct hits were recorded at both the airfield in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod region and the Progress rocket and space centre in Samara region. It said the strikes had sparked fires at both sites.
The General Staff said the Samara plant produces rockets used to launch satellites for the Rassvet broadband network, which Russia is developing as an alternative to SpaceX’s Starlink.
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