Rockets struck the "Molniya" drone manufacturing plant in Taganrog

On the night of Sunday, April 19, missiles struck the "ATLANT AERO" facility in Taganrog, Russia. The strike hit a plant that develops and manufactures "Molniya"-type strike and reconnaissance drones, as well as components for the "Orion" UAV. 

This was reported by the ASTRA Telegram channel. 

Local authorities confirmed the missile attack on the Rostov region, noting that three people sought medical attention in Taganrog. As a result of the strikes, damage to commercial infrastructure and a fire in the warehouse area were recorded. OSINT analysis confirmed the exact location of the strike on the facilities of the enterprise, which specializes in the production of military equipment. The extent of the damage to the plant’s production facilities is currently being assessed. The attack marks yet another instance of firepower targeting the Russian military-industrial complex in border regions. The “ATLANT AERO” enterprise is part of the aggressor country’s military-industrial complex, supplying the occupying forces with aerial reconnaissance capabilities. 

Information on the condition of the production lines following the fire is currently being verified by monitoring groups. The operation took place at night, allowing the results of the strikes to be documented using satellite imagery and open-source data analysis. This incident underscores the vulnerability of Russian facilities manufacturing high-tech weapons within the range of long-range strike capabilities.

Additionally, on April 18, the Ukrainian military destroyed a Russian TOS-1A “Sontsepok” heavy flamethrower system in the temporarily occupied territory of Zaporizhzhia Oblast.

Ukrainian defenders launched a successful strike on enemy logistics hubs, destroying fuel tankers near the temporarily occupied city of Luhansk.

In the Russian city of Tuapse in the Krasnodar Krai, explosions were heard on the night of April 16 amid a drone attack. The strikes may have targeted tanks at the Tuapse Oil Refinery, which belongs to Rosneft.

As a reminder, on the morning of April 15, Ukrainian “Lyuty” strike drones attacked a petrochemical plant in the city of Sterlitamak, located in the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russian Federation.

As a reminder, in the city of Sterlitamak in Bashkortostan, one of the centers of the chemical and petrochemical industry of the Russian Federation, an attack was recorded on facilities that may be associated with the production of components for military equipment.

Additionally, the temporarily occupied Crimean Peninsula came under a massive drone strike.