During the night of 26 November, Ukraine’s Defense Forces struck several Russian military facilities, including the “VNIIR-Progress” plant in Cheboksary, which produces components for Russian missiles and drones. Additional strikes targeted command posts, an air-defense system, ammunition depots and Russian manpower concentrations.
Ukraine’s Defense Forces hit the “VNIIR-Progress” plant in Cheboksary, Chuvash Republic, during the night of 26 November. The plant manufactures navigation equipment and components for Russian cruise and ballistic missiles. According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the strike caused an impact on the territory of the enterprise followed by a fire, with the extent of damage still being assessed.
“VNIIR-Progress” produces GNSS receivers and antennas for GLONASS, GPS and Galileo satellite systems, including “Kometa” modules used in Shahed-type kamikaze drones, Iskander-M and Kalibr missiles, as well as in UMPK glide-bomb kits.
Ukrainian drones also struck a number of Russian military targets in the temporarily occupied territories, including:
• in Vasylivka — a command post of a unit of the Russian 58th Combined Arms Army;
• in Mariupol — a Tor-M1 air-defense system;
• in Ocheretyne and Kamianka in Donetsk region — brigade-level ammunition depots;
• on the Pokrovsk axis — a Russian manpower concentration area.
The General Staff emphasized that Ukraine’s Defense Forces continue measures aimed at stopping Russia’s armed aggression by destroying its personnel, equipment and weapons.