The Ukrainian and Russian governments both published claims of respective successes in striking each others’ military infrastructure while accusing the other of attacking civilians.
The Ukrainian armed forces say they succeeded in striking a major Russian weapons plant in Kaluga Oblast, Western Russia, in Russia’s Eastern European region bordering Moscow. The so-called ‘Typhoon’ plant, Ukraine’s ‘National Security and Defense Council’s Center for Countering Disinformation’ director Andriy Kovalenko says is an important part of the “Russian military-industrial complex”.
Among the work undertaken at the bombed plant, Kovalenko said, is the development and manufacture of military electronic equipment including communications and sensors, air defence and missile parts, and military equipment maintenance. Some media reports have called the facility a “missile factory”.
As well as the workshops, Ukraine also claims to have hit an oil refinery depot in the same region, which they called a ‘confirmed success’.
In all, Ukraine stated it had “struck a number of important objects of the Russian invaders in the Bryansk, Kaluga and Kursk regions of the Russian Federation”. The drone attack on Kaluga was claimed by Ukrainian media as the work of the nation’s Main Directorate of Intelligence, which is generally credited as having been beyond the most audacious and novel drone strikes.