MOSCOW
\nUkrainian forces launched a missile strike on the Russian city of Bryansk using British-supplied Storm Shadow long-range cruise missiles, with reports indicating approximately seven missiles were involved in the operation.
\nThe attack targeted the Kremniy El microelectronics plant, a key facility producing components and control systems for various Russian missile systems, including those used against Ukrainian targets.
\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described the strike as a successful operation in his statements and nightly address, emphasizing that it hit a critical military factory manufacturing electronics for missiles that strike Ukrainian cities, villages, and civilians, and he congratulated the Armed Forces for their execution.
\nUkraine\u2019s General Staff confirmed the hit, releasing footage showing explosions and fires at the industrial site, and framed it as part of ongoing efforts to degrade Russia\u2019s military-industrial capacity.
\nRussian authorities, including Bryansk Governor Alexander Bogomaz, reported that the strike impacted civilian areas in a busy commercial district near residential buildings, shops, educational institutions, and other non-military sites in the Sovetsky District.
\nThe initial casualty figures stood at six killed and around 37-42 injured, with a teenager born in 2009 among those hospitalized in stable condition; the death toll later rose to seven according to updated statements from local officials, who provided medical aid and support to victims and their families.
\nMoscow labeled the incident a deliberate terrorist attack by the \u201cneo-Nazi Kiev regime,\u201d condemned it as a heinous crime against peaceful civilians, and accused Western involvement\u2014particularly Britain\u2014for enabling the operation through specialists handling the missiles\u2019 operation, targeting, and intelligence support.
\nThe Russian Foreign Ministry issued a detailed statement highlighting that such high-tech weapons require foreign expertise, holding Britain and other NATO backers fully responsible for the civilian deaths and injuries.
\nThe statement further accused London of entangling itself in escalation by positioning as a leading European hawk and Russia\u2019s adversary, violating international norms in pursuit of geopolitical aims.
\nIt noted the timing coincided with intensifying diplomatic efforts in trilateral Russia-US-Ukraine formats and U.S. signals that the conflict might reach a turning point toward peace, suggesting the strike aimed to provoke civilian casualties, derail negotiations, and push hostilities to a new level of destruction\u2014a tactic allegedly repeated by Western sponsors whenever settlement appears possible.
\nRussia called on the United Nations and other international bodies to condemn the action as a violation of international law, warning that continued silence would amount to tacit approval of the Kiev regime\u2019s crimes and its handlers\u2019 escalation drive. This incident underscores the ongoing pattern of deep strikes amid the broader conflict, with both sides claiming military objectives while trading accusations of civilian targeting, though independent on-the-ground verification of precise damage remains constrained by access limitations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
MOSCOW Ukrainian forces launched a missile strike on the Russian city of Bryansk using British-supplied Storm Shadow long-range cruise missiles, with reports indicating approximately seven missiles were involved in the operation. The attack targeted the Kremniy El microelectronics plant, a key facility producing components and control systems for various Russian missile systems, including those used […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536517,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-536502","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n