Ukraine Strikes Russian Rocket Fuel Plant Amid Escalating Attacks
The plant makes solid rocket fuel and munitions components for Russian multiple-launch rocket systems, and officials said damage is still being assessed.
- On Sunday, August 16, Ukrainian forces struck the Kombinat Kamensky military-industrial enterprise in Russia's Rostov region, which produces solid rocket fuel for Uragan, Smerch, and Tornado-S multiple launch rocket systems.
- The General Staff confirmed operations at the ZapSibNeftekhim petrochemical plant in Tyumen were halted following an August 10 strike, while an August 11 attack damaged the Orsknefteorgsintez oil refinery in the Orenburg region.
- President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed that Ukrainian-made "Flamingo" missiles struck the Progress Space Rocket Centre in Samara, 900 kilometers away, alongside attacks on the Savasleyka airfield and an oil facility in Ust-Luga.
- Meanwhile, the Russian Armed Forces stated on August 16 they launched strikes against defense sites in Kyiv, including Fire Point and "Kyiv-111," plus an oil refinery in Kremenchuk and a steel plant in Kryvyi Rih.
- Strikes on a missile unit in Rezervny, Russian-annexed Crimea, and military depots in Donetsk occurred simultaneously with damage to a railway bridge near Svitlodolynske in Zaporizhzhia that the General Staff said maintains military logistics.
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The plant is located in Rostov province.
Two shops destroyed, four damaged - the General Staff confirmed the results of the strike on the Russian VPKU plant on the night of August 16, the Armed Forces of Ukraine struck the Kamensky Plant in the Rostov region. Two shops were destroyed, four more were damaged.
General Staff confirms destruction of 2 workshops at Combinat Kamensky in Rostov region, 4 others damaged
Two workshops producing explosives and gunpowder were destroyed and four others damaged as a result of a strike on the Combinat Kamensky facility in the city of Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Rostov region of the Russian Federation on the night of August 16, 2026, reports the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Monday.
The Kamensky combination produces solid missile fuel for RDF ammunition, a number of missile systems and aircraft.
Ukrainian forces have attacked a Russian plant for rocket solid fuel in the Rostov region. A fire broke out on the site.
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