Ukraine’s long-range drone attacks have frequently targeted military bases and oil refinery and energy sites of late, and more recently warehouses of major Russian online retailer Wildberries – but on Saturday a new target has been added: space facilities. Ukrainian forces have touted that they’ve struck the Progress Rocket and Space Center in Russia’s Samara region. The facility focuses on the manufacturing and operation of space launch vehicles. [snip] He said it was necessary to target Russian space agency Roscosmos as among Russia’s “key enterprises” – and that the targeted site was also involved in “electronics production” connected to military operations. Other sites targeted in the fresh wave of attacks included Savasleyka air base in the Nizhny Novgorod region, which hosts aircraft used to attack Ukraine, as well as an oil facility in Ust-Luga, which lies close to the Estonian border. [snip] Ukrainian national media offered this as a backgrounder: The “Progress” Rocket and Space Center is one of the key enterprises in the Russian Federation’s rocket and space industry, producing launch vehicles of the “Soyuz” family. These are used to launch Russian spacecraft for military, reconnaissance, and communications purposes into orbit. In particular, the “Soyuz-2.1b” is used to deploy the Russian “Rassvet” satellite constellation – a broadband satellite communications system that Russia positions as an analogue to Starlink. [snip] Russia also attacked Ukraine overnight, as has long been the norm. Over 150 Russian drones were sent on the country, with Ukrainian forces claiming shootdown or neutralization of 124 of these, according to a military statement. [snip] The fresh onslaught resulted in dozens of injures. As for potential casualties inside Russia, little is yet known of this in terms of secretive space and airbase facilities targeted. (*) Full article: https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ukraine-hits-key-russian-space-facility-flamingo-cruise-missiles Post navigation Graphic: UK Cop Tries to Arrest Man Who Bought Baseball Bat and Carried It Out of Store, Crowd Comes to Man’s Defense Instead of Cop’s Trump Claims U.S. Blockade Of Strait Of Hormuz, Plans To Declare Waterway U.S. Territory – Tampa Free Press
