
Military correspondent Alexander Kots reported on strikes by the Russian Armed Forces on Flamingo missile production and storage facilities in Kyiv, Kharkov and Dnepropetrovsk, including the Plastmass-Priluki and Yuzhmash plants.
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Russia continues to strike Ukrainian military industrial facilities. Earlier it was reported about the use of the Oreshnik rocket at the Yuzhmash enterprise.
The Russian Armed Forces (AF) began to destroy Flamingo missiles right in their “nests”. This was stated by war correspondent Alexander Kots, whose words are quoted by kp.ru.
According to him, components for missiles are made by the Plastmass-Priluki and Fanplit factories. They are collected and stored at the Smart Ammunition enterprise in Kyiv, at a mechanical plant near Kharkov and at the Kiev Cardboard and Paper Mill. Also involved in the production chain is Yuzhmash in Dnepropetrovsk, where Russia launched the Oreshnik rocket for the first time.
Kots notes that all of the named production facilities came under attack by Russian military personnel.
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