Ukraine Confirms Strike on Sole Supplier of Batteries for Russian Glide Bombs
The strike on the Energiya plant was one of several hits on Russian facilities reported by Kyiv's military over three days.
By Alina Campbell ·
Ukraine's General Staff said a strike hit an Energiya plant workshop in Yelets, Lipetsk Oblast, late on 25 October or in the early hours of 26 October. A fire broke out on the premises. The workshop makes power supply elements for Russian weapons.
The plant is the only manufacturer of power batteries for the glide and correction modules fitted to aerial bombs. It also builds batteries for Iskander-M operational-tactical missile systems and for sea-launched cruise missiles. The General Staff said the strike complicates the Russian army's manufacturing of power sources for missiles, guided aerial bombs and other armaments.
The General Staff also released details of a 23 October strike on the Proton-Electrotex company in Oryol. It said the main microchip production workshop was destroyed and that a building and servers at Proton-Electrotex in Oryol were damaged. The strike complicates Russian production of components for cruise and ballistic missiles.
Two other facilities were hit in the same period. Three buildings used for preparing and fitting strike drones and one launch rail were damaged in a 23 October strike on a drone storage, preparation and launch site near Donetsk. At the Tolyattikauchuk plant in Tolyatti, Samara Oblast, a 24 October strike damaged a process pipeline, two butyl rubber production units and one fractionation column, which the General Staff said deals a blow to the supply chain for solid rocket propellant used in tactical and ballistic missiles.
Open-source intelligence analysts reported on 25 October that the Energiya plant in Yelets was attacked, likely using Storm Shadow cruise missiles. Ukraine's defence forces struck Tolyattikauchuk and Proton-Electrotex on 23 October and on the night of 23-24 October.
