On the night of 9 November, operators of the 1st Separate Unmanned Systems Centre of the Unmanned Systems Forces, together with other components of Ukraine’s Defence Forces, struck the Morozov Plant in Russia’s Leningrad Region.
The Unmanned Systems Forces reported this as did the General Staff.
“This is not just an explosives plant — the enterprise is one link in the production chain for Russia’s Iskander missiles. It manufactures solid-fuel charges for the engines of 9M723 ballistic missiles of the Iskander-M system, and the plant itself was also a developer of solid fuel for the Topol-M missile systems,” they said.
The distance to the target is more than 900 km from Ukraine’s border.
Update. As the General Staff said, JSC “Morozov Plant” is located near St Petersburg. This defence-industry enterprise is part of the state corporation Rostec and is one of the key links in the chain that supplies Russia’s army with ballistic missiles.
On the night of 9 November, units struck the facility and damaged three production workshops at once. The scale of the damage is being уточнюється.
“What does this mean for Ukraine? Every such strike makes it harder for the enemy to produce missiles for Iskanders, which it uses to hit our cities. The chain is broken at the very beginning, long before the launcher,” the General Staff noted.
Ukraine is acting within its right to self-defence, guaranteed by Article 51 of the UN Charter. The Defence Forces are systematically undermining the aggressor’s military-economic potential to force the enemy to stop its armed aggression against Ukraine.
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