{"id":1309771,"date":"2025-10-22T08:50:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T05:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/kamikaze-drones-hit-a-defense-plant-in-russia-details-of-the-attack\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T08:50:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T05:50:28","slug":"kamikaze-drones-hit-a-defense-plant-in-russia-details-of-the-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/kamikaze-drones-hit-a-defense-plant-in-russia-details-of-the-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamikaze drones hit a defense plant in Russia: details of the attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On the night of October 22, Saransk in the Republic of Mordovia was subjected to a massive attack by suicide drones, with the Saransk Mechanical Plant among the targets. The first explosions occurred around 3 a.m.; local witnesses released footage showing the drones hitting the plant and a large mushroom-shaped column of flame rising above it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This is reported by the Astra resource.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1309771-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/6e1587df-mobile.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/6e1587df-mobile.mp4\">https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/6e1587df-mobile.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p> The head of Mordovia, Artem Zdunov, confirmed the drone attack and reported damage to one of the region&#8217;s industrial facilities. Firefighters and other emergency services are working at the scene; the fire and the aftermath are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p> According to preliminary reports, the drones covered a distance of at least 750 kilometers to the target, but this data is being officially confirmed.<\/p>\n<p> The Saransk Mechanical Plant has the status of a federal enterprise and belongs to the structure of the state corporation Rostec. Officially, part of its production is related to the defense industry: in open registers, the company is listed as a manufacturer of components, in particular products used in the manufacture of ammunition. That is why the current attack has both a strategic and industrial dimension &#8211; its consequences may affect not only local infrastructure, but also individual links of the Russian military-industrial complex.<\/p>\n<p> As a reminder, on Tuesday, October 21, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/syly-oborony-raketamy-storm-shadow-vdaryly-po-brianskomu-khimichnomu-zavodu-shcho-vidomo-pro-ataku\/\">the Air Force, together with the Ground Forces, the Navy, and other components of the Defense Forces, attacked the Bryansk Chemical Plant.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> As reported, on Sunday, October 19, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/novokuybyshevskyy-npz-zupynyv-robotu-pislia-ataky-ukrainskykh-droniv-reuters\/\">as a result of an attack by Ukrainian drones, the Novokuybyshevsk oil refinery, located in the Samara region, stopped operating.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the night of October 22, Saransk in the Republic of Mordovia was subjected to a massive attack by suicide drones, with the Saransk Mechanical Plant among the targets. The first explosions occurred around 3 a.m.; local witnesses released footage showing the drones hitting the plant and a large mushroom-shaped column of flame rising above [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1309762,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874],"class_list":["post-1309771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1309771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1309762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1309771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1309771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}