A drone «crashed» at an unspecified factory workshop in the city of Izhevsk, Regional Governor Alexander Brechalov said on Sunday.
A Russian military manufacturing site was hit in a drone attack overnight, according to a Russian and a Ukrainian official, as Moscow launched a large-scale missile and drone campaign across Ukraine.
Andriy Kovalenko, an official with Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, said on Sunday that drones had attacked a manufacturing plant in Izhevsk, the capital of Russia’s Udmurt Republic. He did not directly attribute the attack to Kyiv, while Ukrainian media described the targeted facility as more than 800 miles into Moscow’s territory.
Kyiv has frequently launched long-range drone attacks several hundreds of miles from its border into Russia, targeting infrastructure it says props up Moscow’s war effort. Ukraine is not allowed to use Western-provided long-range equipment to launch these strikes on key targets, which have included air bases, oil refineries and ammunition storage sites.
Ukraine has developed its long-range capabilities domestically, meaning the restrictions placed on Western weapons by Kyiv’s supporters don’t apply. Ukraine is developing a new long-range ballistic missile and said it had successfully tested its Palianytsia missile-drone in late August.
Russia’s Defense Ministry did not report any attacks on the Udmurt region overnight, but said Ukraine had launched drone strikes on the border Kursk, Bryansk and Belgorod regions, followed later by attacks on the Oryol region and further drones above Belgorod.
