By Bloomberg News | Updated on Aug 15, 2026 at 11:21 AM
Ukraine said it attacked a production unit of the Roscosmos space agency as it continued strikes at military and related infrastructure deep within Russia.
In the Samara region, some 900 kilometers (560 miles) from Ukraine’s border, Flamingo missiles hit the Progress Rocket and Space Center, “involved, among other things, in electronics production,” Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on social media. “Our plan of long-range sanctions against Russia for this war is being carried out.”
Today, there are new significant results from our deep strikes. In Russia’s Samara region, one of the key enterprises within Roscosmos – the Progress Center, which was involved, among other things, in electronics production – was hit. Flamingo missiles were used. A good… pic.twitter.com/1BlZpmvKRN
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) August 15, 2026
Local authorities earlier reported a missile attack at an unspecified industrial enterprise. Information on damage and casualties was being assessed, and those wounded received medical treatment.
Zelenskyy also claimed a strike on the Savasleyka airbase in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod region, about 300 km east of Moscow and more than 950 km northeast of Kyiv. The facility, a base for various Russian fighter jets, has been struck by Ukrainian drones over the past two years.
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Russia’s Defense Ministry reported downing 598 drones fired by Ukraine overnight. It claimed attacks on military warehouses in the Ukrainian ports of Odesa and Yuzhny on the Black Sea coast and Izmail on the Danube River, which forms Ukraine’s border with Romania.