Overnight on April 15, Russian rockets struck a rocket manufacturing plant outside Kyiv in the village of Vyshneve, Ukrainian media, the state defense conglomerate UkrOboronProm and AFP reported.
The Vizar Zhulyansky Machine-Building Plant allegedly made components for the long-range, anti-ship Neptune rockets that caused Russia’s Black Sea flagship vessel, the Moskva, to sink on April 14.
Images show partial damage to the factory.
UkrOboronProm confirmed the Russian missile strike on Facebook but didn’t say whether the plant manufactured the Neptune rockets or any of its components.
The defense and aerospace company did surmise that the plant was struck because of “two Neptune missiles produced by a number of public and private enterprises, which destroyed the Moskva cruiser of the aggressor country.”
AFP reported that a “workshop and an administrative building at the Vizar plant…were seriously damaged…Around 50 vehicles parked near the plant had their windows blown out.”
Five projectiles struck the area, a nearby business owner told the French news agency.
Ukroboronprom said “that despite regular missile strikes and shelling of defense companies, Ukraine has plenty [of weapons] with which to fight.”
The main manufacturer of the Neptune rockets is the Luch factory.
