British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, left, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, center, and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky visited outside No.10 Downing Street after a discussion on the ongoing war in Ukraine in London on March 17. Zelensky thanked Ukrainian military personnel Wednesday for their “precision” after hittin a Russian military factory site on Tuesday. File Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Ukrainian missiles hit a key Russian military factory more than 620 miles into the country, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
The Flamingo FP-5 cruise missiles hit the Progress factory in Cheboksary, the capital of Russia’s Chuvashia Republic. It makes the Kometa antennas that allow Russian drones and missiles to bypass Ukrainian air defenses.
Chuvashia Gov. Oleg Nikolayev confirmed Wednesday on Telegram that the city had been attacked and reported three injuries. He didn’t say what buildings were hit, but Politico reported that independent Russian news website Astra reported that it was the Progress plant that was hit. The site used local social media videos to find the location.
We continue to apply Ukrainian long-range sanctions against Russian military facilities and the oil industry. In particular, last night Ukrainian FP-5 Flamingos struck a military plant in Cheboksary that supplies the occupier’s army with components for drones and missiles. I… pic.twitter.com/WdA2yUhsyC— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) June 10, 2026
The site has been a target of Ukraine before. Ukraine hit its administrative building on May 5, and the company has since covered the business with drone nets.
Zelensky said on X that he appreciated Ukraine’s armed forces for their “precision” and said the plant “supplies the occupier’s army with components for drones and missiles.”
The antennas produced there have caused real issues for Ukraine. The upgraded version that came out in 2025 has anti-jamming elements that have made existing electronic defense systems ineffective, Politico reported.
Ukrainian engineers have worked to find ways to combat the antennas, but the strikes should help prevent them from being made.
Zelensky also said Ukraine had hit a Russian oil refinery in Samara and a “shadow fleet” oil tanker on the Black Sea. Ukraine confirmed it had hit the Russian-occupied port city of Mariupol on the Sea of Azov.
Russia’s military said it intercepted or shot down 326 Ukrainian drones overnight, the BBC reported.
Ukraine’s air force said it shot down 181 out of 207 drones fired by Russia at the same time. It also admitted 21 direct hits in 14 locations.
At least two people were killed and 26 injured, including two children, in four Ukrainian regions over the past 24 hours, the BBC reported local officials said.
On Tuesday, Zelensky traveled to Tallinn, Estonia, to take part in the Ukraine-Nordic-Baltic Eight summit and meet with other regional leaders.
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