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President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky 15 August on Telegram commented on a successful Ukrainian missile strike on occupier facilities on the territory of the aggressor state Russia.
He confirmed that in the Samara region of Russia one of the key enterprises within Roscosmos was hit — the Progress center, which, among other things, was engaged in electronics production. Monitoring pages on Russian media had earlier that day written that this facility most likely sustained damage.
"Flamingo" missiles were used, a good achievement. The distance from our border is about 900 km. Our long‑range sanctions also reached the Savasleyka airfield, where carriers of Russian missiles that strike our cities and villages are based. That is about 700 km from Ukraine," Zelensky said.
He also said that damage necessary for Ukraine was recorded at an oil facility on the territory of the settlement Ust‑Luga. The latter is located at a distance of more than 800 km from the Ukrainian border.
"Our plan of long‑range sanctions against Russia in this war is being carried out, and it is important that Russia’s war potential is reduced. Peace is needed, and in Russia this should be visible — as concrete damage to concrete facilities," summarized the head of state.
OSINT analysts from the Cyberboroshno community wrote in their analysis that the Progress rocket and space center in Samara is the only enterprise in the Russian Federation for serial assembly of the Soyuz‑2 launch vehicle. The strike likely hit building 106A, which operates in a high cleanroom class. According to Cyberboroshno, on site they were assembling onboard electrical engineering, instruments, and printed circuit boards — essentially the carrier’s "nervous system." The rocket is not assembled up to this stage even if the hull and tanks are ready. Nearby is also building 106B, which is the final assembly building, the post said.
The community emphasized that such a facility is restored more slowly than ordinary production — we are talking months, not weeks.
"The strategic weight of Progress lies in its uniqueness. It is the only assembly point for the entire Soyuz‑2 line, which Russia uses to deploy and replenish its military orbital group (radio‑technical reconnaissance and targeting Liana, optical reconnaissance Persona/Razdan), and its own 'Starlink' — the satellite internet Rassvet from the Bureau 1440, which is deployed exclusively by Soyuz‑2.1b carriers. There is no duplicate for this production," the project emphasized. The publication GORDON earlier compiled information about the Russian analogue of Starlink, Rassvet.
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