Ukraine says it struck missile-fuel and launch-support sites in Russia; Moscow confirms only Redkino fire

Ukraine’s General Staff said Friday that Ukrainian forces struck missile-launch support and rocket-fuel-related facilities inside Russia overnight, while Russian regional authorities have so far publicly confirmed only a fire at an industrial site in Redkino in the Tver region. Tver Gov. Vitaliy Korolyov said there were no injuries.

In a Telegram post, the General Staff said the targets were a branch of JSC Center for Operation of Ground-based Space Infrastructure, or TsENKI — specifically the V.P. Barmin Research Institute of Launch Complexes — in the area of Dalneye Konstantinovo-5 in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod region; the Redkinsky Experimental Plant in Redkino, Tver region; and a “center for elimination of intercontinental ballistic missiles” near Surovatikha, also in Nizhny Novgorod region. Ukraine said the strikes were aimed at weakening Russia’s military-industrial capacity.

What has been publicly corroborated so far is narrower. Russian regional authorities and local Russian media reported that a fire broke out overnight at an industrial enterprise in Redkino after what they described as an attempted drone attack. Korolyov said workers were evacuated and that “Сотрудники предприятия не пострадали, были вовремя эвакуированы в укрытие” — employees were not hurt and were evacuated to shelter in time. Russian statements available Friday did not publicly identify the plant by name or confirm any role in missile-fuel production.

By contrast, the two sites in Nizhny Novgorod region named by Ukraine had not been independently confirmed at the time of writing. No public confirmation from Russian federal or regional officials had surfaced for the TsENKI-linked Barmin facility near Dalneye Konstantinovo-5 or for the site near Surovatikha, and no geolocated imagery confirming strikes at either location had been found. Those reported strikes therefore remain unverified beyond Ukraine’s statement.

The Redkino plant matters because it has been widely described by Ukrainian and Western media, as well as open-source intelligence aggregators, as part of the production chain for Decilin-M fuel components used in Kh-55 and Kh-101 cruise missiles. That has made it a recurring focus in reporting on Ukraine’s efforts to disrupt Russia’s capacity to launch long-range missile attacks. The same facility was also reported struck in February 2026 in earlier coverage that linked it to Russian missile-fuel supply chains.

The TsENKI branch named by Ukraine is tied to Russia’s ground-based space and launch infrastructure, and the Barmin institute is associated with launch-complex engineering and fueling systems. Ukraine has spent much of 2026 publicly describing a broader campaign of long-range strikes on Russian military and industrial infrastructure that it says support missile and drone attacks on Ukraine. In Friday’s statement, the General Staff said the operation “...є реалізацією Україною невід'ємного права на самооборону відповідно до статті 51 Статуту ООН...” — an exercise of Ukraine’s inherent right to self-defense under Article 51 of the U.N. Charter.