The General Staff confirmed the strike on the VNIIR-Progress plant and the Kirishi refinery

On the night of May 5, the Ukrainian Defense Forces struck a number of important military and industrial facilities of the Russian army, in particular the VNIIR-Progress plant in Cheboksary and the Kiryshsky oil refinery in the Leningrad region.

This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The VNIIR-Progress plant in Chuvashia produces GNSS receivers and antennas for the GLONASS, GPS, and Galileo satellite systems, as well as adaptive Comet antenna arrays.

It is these components that the Russian military uses in Shahed-type kamikaze drones, cruise and ballistic missiles, as well as in gliding and correction modules for aerial bombs.

The General Staff emphasized that it is with these high-precision weapons that Russia regularly strikes the territory of Ukraine, in particular, civilian infrastructure.

In addition, Ukrainian military personnel struck the infrastructure of the Kiryshsky oil refinery in the Leningrad region of the Russian Federation. After the attack, a fire broke out on the territory of the enterprise.

Both enterprises are involved in supplying the Russian occupation army.

Also, over the past 24 hours, Ukrainian soldiers destroyed a field depot of fuels and lubricants in the Vedmizhye area in the temporarily occupied Luhansk region.

In addition, a command and observation post in the Smile area, the Kasta radar station near Yelyseivka in the Zaporizhia region, as well as a material and technical equipment warehouse near Donetsk were hit.

It was previously reported that the Security Service of Ukraine, together with the Defense Forces, struck oil refining infrastructure in the Leningrad Region of the Russian Federation.

As a reminder, on the night of Tuesday, May 5, drones attacked the Leningrad Region of the Russian Federation . An oil refinery in the city of Kirishi was hit, after which a fire broke out there.