Ukraine's General Staff reports strike on facility run by Russian space agency

Ukraine's defence forces struck the Scientific Research Institute of Physical Measurements JSC in Russia's Penza Oblast on the night of 30 June – 1 July, with a hit and smoke recorded at the facility.

Source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook

Details: The General Staff described the facility as a leading Russian company in space, aviation and military instrument engineering. It is part of the Russian Space Systems holding company, which itself is a component of the State Corporation for Space Activities (Roscosmos). It manufactures, among other things, sensors for cruise and ballistic missiles (Iskander, Kalibr, Kh-101), components for aircraft onboard systems (Su-34, Su-35, Tu-95MS) and equipment for military space applications (reconnaissance satellites).

The scale of the damage is being assessed.

The General Staff also reports strikes on a road bridge over the Malyi Kalchyk river near Hranitne in Donetsk Oblast, a railway bridge over the Tepla river near Nyzhnoteple in Luhansk Oblast, and a logistics crossing near Novoocheretuvate in Donetsk Oblast.

The Russians use these facilities to transfer personnel, weapons, ammunition and matériel.

A Russian fuel and lubricants depot in occupied Melitopol was also struck, along with three Russian logistics depots near Krupky in Russia's Kursk Oblast, Rivnopillia in Donetsk Oblast and Novoiehorivka in Kharkiv Oblast.

The General Staff also said five Russian UAV ground control stations had been struck near Hrozove and Zaliznychne in Zaporizhzhia Oblast and Udachne, Novooleksandrivka and Pokrovsk in Donetsk Oblast.

Background: President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has reported that Ukrainian weapons struck a Russian military-industrial complex facility in Russia's Penza Oblast.

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