Zelenskyy says Ukraine strikes Russian space facility in Samara

Bloomberg News on Aug 15, 2026

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Ukraine said it attacked a production unit of the Roscosmos space agency as it continued strikes at military and related infrastructure deep within Russia.

In the Samara region, some 900 kilometers (560 miles) from Ukraine’s border, Flamingo missiles hit the Progress Rocket and Space Center, “involved, among other things, in electronics production,” Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on social media. “Our plan of long-range sanctions against Russia for this war is being carried out.”

Local authorities earlier reported a missile attack at an unspecified industrial enterprise. Information on damage and casualties was being assessed, and those wounded received medical treatment.

Zelenskyy also claimed a strike on the Savasleyka airbase in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod region, about 300 kilometers (186 miles) east of Moscow and more than 950 kilometers (590 miles) northeast of Kyiv. The facility, a base for various Russian fighter jets, has been struck by Ukrainian drones over the past two years.

Russia’s Defense Ministry reported downing 598 drones fired by Ukraine overnight. It claimed attacks on military warehouses in the Ukrainian ports of Odesa and Yuzhny on the Black Sea coast and Izmail on the Danube River, which forms Ukraine’s border with Romania.