Ukraine hits Russian Starlink-style network, Moscow tracks arms package
Get the Geopolitics newsletter
Daily geopolitics — wars, elections, sanctions, the diplomatic moves that move markets. Free.
- Ukraine struck the Progress Centre rocket facility in Russia's Samara region — roughly 900km from the border — using domestically produced Flamingo cruise missiles, also hitting Savasleyka air base about 700km from the border, with Zelenskyy calling the campaign "long-range sanctions" aimed at reducing Russia's war potential.
- Samara Mayor Ivan Noskov confirmed air defenses repelled what he called a "massive" attack, though he acknowledged some regional industrial sites were damaged.
- A Ukrainian drone struck a house in the Moscow-region town of Shatura, injuring two people including a nine-year-old child, per Governor Andrey Vorobyov.
- Russia struck an apartment block in the southeastern Ukrainian town of Marhanets, killing a three-month-old baby, local officials said.
- Russia's Foreign Ministry demanded answers from Washington and Ankara about a reported plan to transfer a "substantial arsenal" of US weapons and ammunition held in Turkiye to Kyiv.
- Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova warned such a transfer would cause "serious harm" to Russia's relations with both Washington and Ankara.
Why it matters: Zelenskyy explicitly framed the 900km Flamingo strike on a Roscosmos-tied facility not as pure military logic but as a deliberate effort to make the war's costs visible inside Russian territory — while Moscow's rare public demand for answers from two capitals over a single reported arms transfer shows the stockpile threat is concrete enough to justify a top-tier diplomatic warning.
Ask SkimNews
