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Ukraine’s Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) on Saturday reported that its drones hit the Shahed storage airbase in Primorsko-Akhtarsk and the Elektropribor military plant in Penza in Russia just as three people were killed by Russian strikes on Kherson.
Ukraine’s drone attack on Russia reportedly hit the Elektropribor plant in Penza, which Kyiv claims works for the Russian defence industry.
According to Ukrainian special services, equipment for digital networks in military command systems, devices for aviation, armoured vehicles, ships, and spacecraft are produced there.
Ukraine claimed their first drone attack at the Primorsko-Akhtarsk military airbase in Krasnodar Krai caused a fire to break out. The storage and launch sites of the Shahed attack drones were also targeted, according to the SSU.
Videos of a massive fire that was purportedly on the premises of the Novokuibyshevsk oil plant in Samara Oblast were shared on social media.
The footage on Telegram, widely used to disseminate information about Russia’s war in Ukraine, captured drone-like activity and the reaction of air defence systems.
The governor of the region, Vyacheslav Fedorishchev, confirmed the drone strike on Novokuibyshevsk. “Enemy UAVs attacked one of the industrial facilities in Novokuibyshevsk this morning. Emergency services are working at the scene,” he wrote on Telegram.
Internet service was subsequently restricted across the oblast, and operations at the Samara airport were suspended, Fedorishchev said.
Russian attack kills two people in Kherson
Meanwhile, two people were killed in Kherson by Russian shelling, according to the Kherson Oblast Military Administration.
The deaths in Kherson were the latest in a barrage of Russian drone and missile attacks on Ukraine’s capital, including that of Kyiv early Friday that killed 31 people, including five children. Around 150 people were injured.
Two people were killed on Saturday morning in Kherson by a Russian attack, according to the Kherson Oblast Military Administration.
A Russian airstrike on Kherson’s Korabelnyi area left a 68-year-old lady dead and two others injured: a 79-year-old man who received blast trauma and a 41-year-old man who suffered various injuries to his limbs and torso, according to local media.
One person was reportedly killed in the area on Friday and nine people injured.
The body of a man was found beneath the debris of a residential structure in the Dniprovskyi area shelled by Russia, local officials said.
Ukraine says they are holding off Russia, but Moscow’s summer offensive is proving to be the deadliest yet for Kyiv.
Moscow’s summer offensive deadliest for Ukraine
On Saturday, the Ukrainian Air Force reported it had foiled or suppressed 45 out of 53 Russian drones against Ukraine overnight. The Ukrainian Air Force reported that
As part of its defence, Ukraine sank several Russian warships in the Black Sea, crippling Moscow’s naval capability and forcing it to redeploy its fleet from Russian-occupied Crimea to Novorossiysk in a series of strikes earlier in the war, now in its fourth year.
Ukraine employed drones to strike multiple Russian air sites that house long-range bombers throughout Russia, from the Arctic Kola Peninsula to Siberia, in an audacious 1 June offensive code-named “Spiderweb.”
The drones were launched from trucks covertly placed near the bases, taking the Russian military by surprise in a humiliating blow to the Kremlin.
The raid destroyed or damaged many of the bombers that had been used by Moscow to launch aerial attacks on Ukraine, providing a major morale boost for Kyiv at a time when Kyiv’s undermanned and under-gunned forces are facing Russian attacks along the 1,000-kilometre front line.
