A large-scale Ukrainian attack struck industrial infrastructure in Russia’s southwestern Samara region Saturday (August 15, 2026), a Russian official said.
He said that the strike used Ukraine’s domestically produced Flamingo missiles to hit the site, which is approximately 900 kilometres from the Ukrainian border. Russia’s Ministry of Defence said Saturday (August 15) that it had shot down 598 Ukrainian drones over 19 Russian regions, as well as the Black and Azov Seas and the annexed Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea.
Ivan Noskov, head of the region’s capital, Samara, said air defence forces had repelled a “massive” missile attack, with “localised damage” to the city’s industrial sites. He also said that medical assistance had been provided to those injured in the attack, but did not give further details. Writing on social media, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Kyiv’s forces had carried out a strike against Samara’s Progress Centre, which operates under the Russian space agency Roscosmos and is involved in producing rocket technology and electronics. Drones hit the building in the town of Marhanets, said Oleksandr Hanzha, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration. Russia’s Ministry of Defence also said that it had targeted warehouses and infrastructure at the Ukrainian ports of Odesa, Izmail and Yuzhnyi.
