Ukraine hit the Progress Rocket Space Center in Samara using ground-launched Flamingo cruise missiles, President Zelenskyy confirmed Saturday on X. The target sits roughly 900 kilometers from the Ukrainian border, deep inside Russian territory.
Progress is not a peripheral facility. It assembles the Soyuz-2, Russia's primary launch vehicle, along with the newer Soyuz-5 rocket, and it builds military satellites for Roscosmos. Striking it disrupts both Russia's civil space program and its military orbital infrastructure simultaneously.
The full article is worth reading for what it reveals about the Flamingo missile's demonstrated range and what this strike signals about Ukraine's capacity to reach hardened industrial targets this far inside Russia.
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