General Staff confirms strikes on Russian Kapustin Yar training ground and several targets in temporarily occupied territories

General Staff confirms strikes on Russian Kapustin Yar training ground and several targets in temporarily occupied territories

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Based on the results of previous strikes on the Kapustin Yar training ground in the Astrakhan region of the Russian Federation, damage to a technical facility for servicing medium-range ballistic missiles, an assembly building, and a logistics warehouse has been confirmed.

According to Ukrinform, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported this on Facebook.

On Saturday, February 7, Ukrainian defenders struck an area where enemy forces were concentrated near the temporarily occupied Krasnohirske in the Zaporizhzhia region. On the night of February 8, they hit a Russian military supply depot in the area of the temporarily occupied Rozivka.

In the Donetsk region, defenders struck a Russian drone control center in the area of the temporarily occupied Novoekonomichne.

As reported by Ukrinform, during January, the Defense Forces carried out a series of successful strikes targeting the Russian Kapustin Yar training ground, in particular, using domestically produced FP-5 Flamingo missiles.

Read also: Air Defense Forces destroy 69 of more than 100 Russian drones

It has been preliminarily established that the Oreshnik complex is based on the territory of Kapustin Yar. Russia likely launched strikes on the Lviv region from there on January 8.

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