Ukraine has struck a facility where launch vehicles used for Russia’s new satellite system are produced, in the latest strikes behind enemy lines.
The strike used Ukraine’s domestically produced Flamingo missiles to hit the site in the southwestern Samara region, approximately 900 kilometers (560 miles) from the border, as well as Russia’s Savasleyka air base, some 700 kilometers (430 miles) from the front line.
Samara’s Progress Center operates under Russian space agency Roscosmos and is involved in developing rocket technology and electronics.
It produces Soyuz-2 launch vehicles, which are used to project Rassvet satellites, Russia’s version of Elon Musk’s low-orbit satellite internet system Starlink.
Ivan Noskov, head of the region’s capital, Samara, confirmed that air defence forces had repelled a “massive” missile attack, with “localised damage” to the city’s industrial sites. He also said that medical assistance has been provided to those injured in the attack, but did not give further details.
In a post on social media Zelensky said that the need for peace must be felt within Russia.
He wrote: “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 achievement.”
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, 2026Anton Gerashchenko, a former advisor to Ukraine’s minister of internal affairs commented on the importance of the attack, writing on X: “One of the goals of the strike is to disrupt the launches of the Russian Rassvet satellite system, which is called the ‘Russian Starlink’ in Russia.
“The facility is engaged in the development, modernization, and operation of launch vehicles (specifically, the Soyuz-2 series). Soyuz-2 series rockets are used for the orbital deployment of the Rassvet satellite constellation (an analog of Starlink and OneWeb).”
Russia has been accelerating the launch of the Rassvet system, with the first 16 satellites being deployed in March, and a second round being launched in July.
Separately, two people, including a nine-year-old child, were wounded when a Ukrainian drone attack hit a private home in the town of Shatura in the Moscow region, local Governor Andrey Vorobyov said.
Elsewhere, a Russian strike on an apartment block in southeastern Ukraine Saturday killed a three-month-old baby and wounded 11 people, local officials confirmed.
The latest in a series of attacks
Ukraine has stepped up its long-range aerial attacks on Russian military industries and energy facilities, aiming to cut Moscow’s revenue for the war and make Russians feel the consequences of the invasion, now in its fifth year.
While most of Ukraine’s strikes have a range of less than 200 kilometers (125 miles), its longer-range attacks have increased dramatically this year. It launched three times as many of those strikes in July as it did in January, according to data from ACLED, an independent conflict monitor. Repeatedly hitting deep into Russia has forced its military to stretch air defenses over a larger area.
Russia’s Ministry of Defense said Saturday that it had shot down 598 Ukrainian drones over 19 Russian regions, as well as the Black and Azov Seas and the annexed Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea.
On 8 August Kyiv said two Russian oil refineries were hit on over night, with unverified videos showing one site ablaze.
The Wildberries logistics hub in Russia’s Ryazan region after a Ukrainian drone attack on 29 July (Photo: Ukraine Online Telegram/Getty)More than 20 Wildberries warehouses, known as “Russia’s Amazon”, have been struck by Ukrainian drones in less than three weeks, killing at least 13 people. Wildberries is one of Russia’s biggest companies, with a reported turnover of 6.1tn rubles (£58bn) last year with roughly 48,000 employees.
Ukraine also launched Operation Molochka to choke Moscow out of the Black Sea and neighbouring Sea of Azov by targeting Russia’s shadow fleet. In total, the Magyar’s Birds Brigade, one of the drone squads, said it had struck 218 shadow vessels since the beginning of the operation in July.
For years, the Sea of Azov was out of reach of Ukraine’s drones, allowing Russia to use Crimea as a launchpad for attacks on the country’s south and to export the fuel that props up its war machine.
Now, advances in Ukraine’s drone technology have opened up new possibilities.
Videos also emerged on social media, though unverified, appearing to show flaming oil towers pumping out huge plumes of acrid grey smoke – reportedly the Syzran oil refinery in Samara, south-western Russia, 683 miles (1,100km) from the border with Ukraine.
In southern Russia, Kyiv said it had targeted the Ilsky oil refinery in Krasnodar Krai.
The Ukrainian armed forces’ Telegram account wrote “the facility is one of the key sites in the Samara region’s oil refining industry and supplies fuel, in particular, to meet the needs of the Russian armed forces”.
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