{"id":859037,"date":"2026-08-15T13:06:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T13:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/859037\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T13:06:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T13:06:24","slug":"zelensky-confirms-flamingo-missile-strikes-deep-in-russian-territory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/859037\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky Confirms Flamingo Missile Strikes Deep in Russian Territory"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Volodymyr Zelensky<\/a> confirmed on Saturday, Aug. 15, that Ukrainian forces executed long-range strikes targeting strategic facilities in Russia<\/a>, including the use of \u201cFlamingo<\/a>\u201c missiles against an aerospace plant in the Samara region.<\/p>\n

In a statement on Telegram<\/a>, Zelensky detailed the outcomes of what he termed deep strikes into Russian territory.<\/p>\n

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He confirmed that the Progress Space Rocket Centre, a key enterprise within the Russian state corporation Roscosmos involved in electronics production, was struck in the Samara region.<\/p>\n

Zelensky explicitly stated that \u201cFlamingo\u201d missiles were utilized for this attack, noting the facility is located approximately 900 kilometers from the Ukrainian border.<\/p>\n

The president also reported that long-range weapons struck the Savasleyka airfield in the Nizhny Novgorod region. He specified that the base, situated roughly 700 kilometers from Ukraine, hosts aircraft used as carriers for Russian missiles targeting Ukrainian cities and villages.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, Zelensky confirmed an attack on an oil facility in the port of Ust-Luga in the Leningrad region, located over 800 kilometers from the border, stating that the necessary damage to the target was recorded.<\/p>\n

According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine<\/a>, units of the Ukrainian Defense Forces struck the \u201cProgress\u201d Rocket and Space Center in Samara. A direct hit on the target was confirmed, followed by a fire on the facility\u2019s grounds.<\/p>\n

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The \u201cProgress\u201d Rocket and Space Center is one of the key enterprises in the Russian Federation\u2019s rocket and space industry, producing launch vehicles of the \u201cSoyuz\u201d family. These are used to launch Russian spacecraft for military, reconnaissance, and communications purposes into orbit.<\/p>\n

In particular, the \u201cSoyuz-2.1b\u201d is used to deploy the Russian \u201cRassvet\u201d satellite constellation \u2013 a broadband satellite communications system that Russia positions as an analogue to Starlink.<\/p>\n

The Progress Rocket and Space Center also manufactures Earth observation satellites, which the enemy uses for reconnaissance purposes.<\/p>\n

The extent of the damage is being assessed.<\/p>\n

In addition, the Savasleika airfield in the Nizhny Novgorod region of the Russian Federation was struck. A direct hit on the target was recorded, followed by a fire on the airfield grounds.<\/p>\n

\u201cSavasleika\u201d is used, in particular, to base and deploy MiG-31K interceptor fighters \u2013 carriers of the Kh-47M2 \u201cKinzhal\u201d aeroballistic missiles.<\/p>\n

Prior reports of Samara aerospace plant strikes <\/p>\n

The presidential confirmation followed reports from earlier on Saturday regarding explosions at industrial aerospace enterprises in Samara<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Following the initial blasts, Denis Shtilerman, chief designer at the Ukrainian defense company Fire Point, published footage depicting the launch of an FP-5 \u201cFlamingo\u201d missile.<\/p>\n

Samara region Governor Vyacheslav Fedorishchev reported a missile strike on an unnamed industrial facility, while Mayor Ivan Noskov stated that the city\u2019s industrial infrastructure sustained localized damage.<\/p>\n

Open-source intelligence analysts reviewing images of the site identified the location as the shared industrial zone of the Aviakor aviation plant and the Progress Space Rocket Centre. Progress manufactures Soyuz-2 carrier rockets and space satellites, while Aviakor produces and maintains aircraft.<\/p>\n

Concurrent drone activity in Crimea <\/p>\n

The strikes on Russian territory coincided with reports of drone activity in occupied Crimea<\/a> on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n

Local residents reported explosions in Sevastopol and the Bakhchysarai district. Following the blasts, local Telegram channels reported power outages in Sevastopol and a fire in the Balaklava area.<\/p>\n

Russian occupation authorities did not issue an immediate statement regarding the incidents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed on Saturday, Aug. 15, that Ukrainian forces executed long-range strikes targeting strategic facilities in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":859038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-859037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=859037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}