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Ukraine Escalates Drone Campaign with Strikes on Russian Missile and Defense Plants

Security Service of Ukraine’s drones penetrated air defenses to hit facilities manufacturing Kh-series cruise missiles, microelectronics, explosive chemicals.

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Overview

  • Ukrainian drones breached Moscow region air defenses to strike the Raduga plant in Dubna, damaging its cruise missile assembly and munitions workshops and triggering ongoing fires.
  • SSU units and Special Operations Forces hit the Kronstadt plant north of Moscow, targeting production lines for Orion, Inokhodets, Molniya and other unmanned aerial systems.
  • The AFU’s Unmanned Systems Forces carried out strikes on Angstrem JSC, disrupting microelectronics manufacturing vital to Russian defense systems.
  • A prior drone attack on Russia’s Ivanovo-region Dmitrovsky chemical plant produced explosions and halted output of organic chemicals used in explosives and missile fuel.
  • These coordinated drone strikes form part of Ukraine’s strategic effort to degrade Russia’s military-industrial complex and its ability to supply key weaponry.