Ukraine strikes Russian weapons plant, Moscow fuel hub

Ukraine continued attacks deep in
Russian territory on Saturday, striking premises in the city of Volgograd that
produce advanced weapons, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
In a second major strike, Kyiv said
Ukrainian drones hit an oil pumping station that delivers fuel to Russia's
capital, Moscow.
The two attacks came a day after Ukraine
launched one of its biggest drone assaults in the four-and-a-half-year-old war,
targeting a dozen Russian regions, Crimea and shipping at sea.
What do we know about the Ukrainian strikes?
Zelenskyy wrote on X that Ukrainian-made
FP-5 Flamingo missiles hit the Titan-Barrikady facility in Volgograd in
southwestern Russia, which he described as a "major industrial complex."
He said Russia produces "artillery
systems and specialized military equipment, including components for missile
launch systems" at the site.
The strikes caused a fire at the plant, Zelenskyy wrote on the Telegram app.
Ukraine's General Staff said the
facility makes equipment for missile systems, including self-propelled launchers
and transport-loading vehicles for the Iskander-M missile system.
Russia confirmed the attack, with
regional Governor Andrei Bocharov writing on Telegram that at least 10 people
were wounded and taken to the hospital.
Bocharvo said the production facilities
of one plant were damaged,
Around the same time Saturday, Ukrainian
drones attacked a Russian oil pumping station crucial for Moscow's fuel supply,
Ukraine's SBU Security Service said.
The strikes hit a technical building at
the facility owned by the state-owned oil pipeline giant, Transneft.
The facility is based in Vtorovo, near
the capital of the Vladimir region, east of Moscow.
The Kremlin has yet to comment on the
strike, the second successful attack on the pumping station in a month.
Russian strikes leave several dead, injured in Ukraine
Russia, meanwhile, launched strikes on
at least three regions of Ukraine overnight, killing two people and wounding
more than 20, according to Ukrainian authorities.
In the central eastern Dnipropetrovsk
region, one person was killed and two were injured when drones and aerial bombs
struck two districts more than 30 times, an official wrote on Telegram.
A 66-year-old man was killed in a
Russian drone attack on a house in the northern Sumy region, according to the
regional military governor.
The governor spoke of "a massive
attack" elsewhere in the same region bordering Russia that injured 10
people.
Strikes on the southeastern town of
Zaporizhzhia injured nine, including two children, Ukraine's State Emergency Service
said.
Also on Saturday, the RIA news agency
reported that Russian forces have seized the village of Novoskeliuvate in
Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region.
















