Ukraine announces ‘most massive’ attack of war against Russia

WAR IN UKRAINE – The momentum is Ukrainian in the war between the country of Volodymyr Zelensky and Russia. kyiv thus claimed this Tuesday, January 14 to have carried out the attack during the previous night “the most massive” of war against military and industrial installations in several regions of Russia, using in particular, according to Moscow, Western missiles.

Ukrainian forces have increased air attacks in recent months against fuel depots, refineries and military sites in Russia to hamper the logistics of Russian forces fighting on Ukrainian territory.

This Tuesday’s attack targeted in particular the Republic of Tatarstan and the Saratov region, on the Volga, as well as the border region of Bryansk and that of Tula, near Moscow. “Ukrainian defense forces carried out the most massive strikes against military targets (…) at a distance of 200 to 1,100 kilometers deep in Russia”welcomed the Ukrainian general staff.

According to this source, the strikes hit “successfully” an oil depot in Engels, which had already been targeted on January 8, causing a five-day fire in which two Russian firefighters died.

Six American missiles and six British missiles

Another target: the Seltso chemical plant, in the Bryansk region, which, according to kyiv, produces components for artillery, multiple rocket launchers, aviation and missiles. This is a “strategic installation of the Russian military-industrial complex”affirmed the Ukrainian general staff.

According to the Russian Defense Ministry, this Ukrainian strike was carried out using six American ATACMS missiles and six British Storm Shadow missiles. He assured that all the projectiles were shot down without causing any casualties.

“Missiles directly hit the site” and provoked “a major fire”for his part assured a source within the Ukrainian security service (SBU). It also cited strikes on a chemical plant in the Tula region, an ammunition depot at an Engels airfield in the Saratov region, and an oil refinery in the same region.

Russia has promised a systematic response to any Western missile strike on its territory, and has threatened to target the center of kyiv or even to use its new experimental Orechnik hypersonic missile.

“Two industrial companies (…) damaged”

Local Russian authorities also reported a Ukrainian attack in the suburbs of Kazan, capital of Tatarstan, where “a gas tank caught fire (…) following a drone attack”indicated on Telegram the local government, ensuring that “no one was injured”.

In the Saratov region, located about 700 kilometers southeast of Moscow, “two industrial companies were damaged” following a “massive drone attack”regional governor Roman Boussarguine wrote on Telegram. A fire was caused by this attack on a company in Engels, he indicated, without specifying the nature of the damage caused to the second company struck, located in Saratov.

A Ukrainian official, Andriï Kovalenko, head of the center for combating disinformation, a government communications body, mocked on Telegram the “shortcomings of the Russian air defense system”. “Oil refineries, oil depots, factories producing weapons components, all elements without which the Russian army will not be able to fight intensively”he assured.

According to him, the strike on Kazan “damaged” the Orgsintez plant, one of the largest chemical industry enterprises in Russia. Andriï Kovalenko assured that it is a “strategic installation of direct importance to the Russian military-industrial complex”.

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