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Ukraine’s drones sneak 940 km inside Russia to target Shahed “brain” factory
Ukrainian drones strike a plant producing Shahed “brains” in Russia’s city of Cheboksary. Loud explosions and a fire erupted in the town, located approximately 940 kilometers from Ukraine’s Kharkiv, overnight on 9 June.
Ukrainian drones targeted the VNIIR-Progress plant, which produced components for Shahed drones, UMPK kits, and other details for Russian precision-guided weapons.
Ukraine’s General Staff has officially confirmed that the Russian defense industry enterprise, JSC VNIIR-Progress, was struck as part of an operation to degrade the enemy’s capacity to manufacture air-attack systems.
“The facility was confirmed hit by at least two unmanned aerial vehicles, followed by a large-scale fire,” the General Staff has reported.
After the strike, powerful explosions were heard in the city, and the plant halted production, UNIAN writes.
“Two unmanned aerial vehicles crashed on the premises of JSC VNIIR, prompting a decision to suspend operations,” says Oleg Nikolaev, head of Russia’s Chuvashia Republic.
Besides Cheboksary, drone strikes also targeted facilities in Nizhny Novgorod, Tambov, and Voronezh regions. Aviation restrictions were imposed in Kazan, Saratov, and other Russian cities.
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