Ukraine strikes Russian rocket and military centre, Moscow hits infrastructure
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- Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukrainian forces 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.
- Zelensky also reported a separate hit on Russia's Savasleyka air base, approximately 700 km from the front line, writing that "peace must be evident in Russia – through concrete damage to specific facilities."
- Ukraine's long-range strikes tripled from January to July 2025, according to ACLED data, though most Ukrainian strikes still have a range under 200 km, forcing Russia to spread air defenses over a wider area.
- Russia's Ministry of Defence said it shot down 598 Ukrainian drones across 19 Russian regions, the Black Sea, the Azov Sea, and annexed Crimea on Saturday, while a Ukrainian drone hit a private home in Shatura in the Moscow region, wounding a nine-year-old child.
- A Russian strike on an apartment block in Marhanets, southeastern Ukraine, killed a three-month-old baby and wounded 11 people, according to regional head Oleksandr Hanzha.
- Ukraine's Air Force said Russia launched 152 drones overnight Saturday, of which 124 were destroyed, while Russia's MoD separately said it targeted warehouses and infrastructure at the Ukrainian ports of Odesa, Izmail, and Yuzhnyi.
Why it matters: The 900 km Flamingo strike on a Roscosmos rocket-production site is one of Ukraine's deepest confirmed hits inside Russia and demonstrates its new domestically produced long-range missile reaching strategic weapons-industry targets. Zelensky's explicit framing — that peace "must be felt in Russia" — signals an escalating campaign aimed at Moscow's war revenue and military-industrial capacity, while Russia's apartment-block strike that killed a three-month-old in Marhanets shows the civilian toll of the tit-for-tat continuing to mount.
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