Ukraine says it hit a rocket-fuel plant in Russia's Rostov region as Russian attacks kill five and cut power to 280,000 homes
Ukraine's military said on Saturday it struck the Kamensky chemical and defence plant in Russia's Rostov region with drones and Neptune missiles. Ukrainian officials said Russian attacks over the past day killed five people and injured at least 46, and President Volodymyr Zelensky said about 280,000 homes were without electricity.
Ukraine’s military said on Saturday 31 October that it had struck the state-owned Kombinat Kamensky chemical and defence enterprise in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, in Russia’s Rostov region, using drones and Neptune missiles, DW and RFE/RL reported.
Neither side’s battlefield claims can be independently confirmed.
The Ukrainian military said a fire at a finished-products warehouse had been “confirmed” and that four production workshops were damaged. It said the plant makes solid rocket propellant for ammunition used by Russia’s Uragan, Smerch and Tornado-S multiple rocket launchers and for other missiles. Ukraine also reported strikes on four Russian military supply depots in occupied parts of the Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Luhansk regions, according to DW.
Russian attacks killed five people and injured at least 46 over the past day, Ukrainian regional authorities said on Saturday, according to The Kyiv Independent. Ukraine’s Air Force said it downed 105 of 134 drones launched overnight, and that drones hit 20 locations. Two people were killed in Sloviansk in Donetsk region, and one each near Shostka (Sumy region), near Nikopol (Dnipropetrovsk region) and in Zaporizhzhia region, officials said.
President Volodymyr Zelensky called the power situation “difficult”, saying about 200,000 homes in Dnipropetrovsk region and 80,000 in Kyiv region were without electricity. “The world sees that Russia is deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure every day,” he wrote on social media.
Background: Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Ukraine resumed strikes on Russian oil refineries this week (our earlier report), while a local truce around occupied Oleshky is due to end on Sunday night.
US angle: The US State Department this week approved a $2.1 billion sale of 500 Patriot PAC-3 interceptors to Ukraine; Zelensky welcomed it but warned deliveries could take years, RFE/RL reported.
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