Ukraine strikes Russian rocket and military centre, Moscow hits infrastructure
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- Zelensky confirmed Ukraine struck Samara's Progress Centre, a Roscosmos-operated rocket technology and electronics facility roughly 900 km from the Ukrainian border, using domestically produced Flamingo missiles
- Ukraine also hit Russia's Savasleyka air base, about 700 km from the front line, with Zelensky writing that "peace must be evident in Russia – through concrete damage to specific facilities"
- Russia's Ministry of Defence said it shot down 598 Ukrainian drones across 19 Russian regions plus the Black and Azov Seas and annexed Crimea on Saturday
- Russia struck an apartment block in the town of Marhanets with drones, killing a three-month-old baby and wounding 11 people, per Dnipropetrovsk regional officials
- Ukraine's Air Force reported Russia launched 152 drones overnight, of which 124 were destroyed, and Russia's Defence Ministry separately said it had targeted warehouses and infrastructure at the ports of Odesa, Izmail, and Yuzhnyi
- ACLED data shows Ukraine launched three times as many long-range strikes in July as in January, forcing Russia to stretch air defenses across a wider area
- Hundreds of mourners gathered in Kyiv at a memorial for the Kucher family—three-year-old Dmytro and grandparents Halyna and Petro—killed by a Russian Shahed drone on August 8; their son said only about 4.4 pounds of his mother's remains were recovered
Why it matters: Ukraine's domestically produced Flamingo missiles now reach 900 km into Russia, a sharp escalation after ACLM data showed long-range strikes tripled from January to July. Russia answered with 152 drones overnight, killing a three-month-old in Marhanets—exposing the asymmetry between Kyiv's targeted industrial strikes and Moscow's civilian-casualty barrages.
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