Blow to blow: the Russian Armed Forces responded to the massive attacks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces

Russian military personnel retaliated after a massive attack by Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) on the regions of the Russian Federation. According to the Ministry of Defense, the Russian Armed Forces strike exclusively at military facilities and the military-industrial complex (MIC) of Ukraine. The list of neutralized Ukrainian facilities is in the Izvestia article.

What struck the Russian troops in Ukraine

The Russian army has launched a series of attacks on military installations and enterprises of the military-industrial complex of Ukraine in response to massive attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on peaceful infrastructure in Russia. This was announced on May 27 by the Russian Defense Ministry.

From May 20 to May 26, Russian air defense systems destroyed and intercepted 2,331 Ukrainian drones, including 1,465 UAVs outside the SVO zone, the ministry said. As a result of attacks by Ukrainian drones on Russian regions, civilians, including women and children, were injured.

Photo: RIA Novosti

According to the Defense Ministry, earlier, at the initiative of the Russian Federation, a direct Russian-Ukrainian dialogue on the peaceful settlement of the conflict in Ukraine was resumed. However, the Kiev regime, with the support of individual European countries, has taken a number of provocative steps aimed at disrupting the negotiation process.

Background window: how is the Ukrainian settlement process progressing

Switzerland intends to host the negotiations between Moscow and Kiev, a large-scale prisoner exchange has ended, and the Russian Armed Forces, in response to drone attacks, delivered a powerful blow to the enemy's military-industrial complex facilities.

In response to the actions of the Kiev regime, the Russian Armed Forces launched air, sea and land-based high-precision weapons, as well as drone strikes exclusively against military installations and enterprises of the military-industrial complex of Ukraine.

List of neutralized military facilities in Ukraine

— On May 20, a group strike hit the infrastructure facilities of the Ozernoye airfield in the Zhytomyr region, ammunition depots, military equipment and fuel in the Dnipropetrovsk region.

— On May 21, a temporary deployment point and a depot for rocket and artillery weapons of the mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Sumy region, as well as a temporary deployment point for foreign mercenaries near the settlement of Svyatogorsk in the DPR and an ammunition depot of the operational tactical group Kharkiv in the Kharkiv region were hit.

Photo: REUTERS/Press Service of the Ukrainian A

— On May 22, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation launched precision weapons attacks on the Pavlograd defense chemical plant in the Dnipropetrovsk region, an aircraft repair shop, military airfield infrastructure facilities and air defense radar stations in the Krivoy Rog and Mykolaiv regions, as well as a temporary deployment point for foreign mercenaries in the Kharkiv region.

The AN/MPQ-65 multifunctional radar station, a combat control vehicle and two Patriot anti-aircraft missile launchers were destroyed by the Iskander M tactical missile system in the Ordzhonikidze settlement area of the Dnipropetrovsk region.

— On May 23, high-precision ground-based weapons launched a group missile attack on the unloading site and warehouse of containers with military equipment and ammunition in the port of Odessa. As a result of the strike, about 100 containers were destroyed, which contained components for unmanned boats, unmanned aerial vehicles, as well as ammunition.

Infrastructure facilities and training sites for unmanned aerial vehicles at the Kislichevataya airfield in the Zaporizhia region, as well as Kanatovo airfield in the Kirovograd region, and ammunition depots of the Volchansk tactical group in the Kharkiv region were hit.

Photo: Global Look Press/Komsomolskaya Pravda

— On May 24, a massive strike was carried out by high-precision ground-based weapons and unmanned aerial vehicles against an enterprise of the military-industrial complex of Ukraine, which produced missile weapons and attack unmanned aerial vehicles, as well as the center for radio intelligence and the SBU aviation center in the Kiev region.

In addition, the temporary deployment point of the separate special operations center "South" in the area of the settlement of Chernomorsk in the Odessa region and the temporary deployment point of the 3rd assault brigade "Azov" in the area of the settlement of Izium in the Kharkiv region were hit. The position of the Patriot anti-aircraft missile system manufactured by the United States in the Kiev region was also affected.

They beat Grad: how jet fighters hit the control points of the APU drones

A battery of the Dnepr MLRS group defeated the calculations of the Ukrainian Ronin special forces

— On May 25, a massive strike was carried out with high-precision long-range weapons and attack UAVs against enterprises of the military-industrial complex of Ukraine, which produce rocket weapon components, radio electronics, explosives, rocket fuel and attack unmanned aerial vehicles for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. These are the Zhytomyr Repair Plant of radio engineering equipment "Luch" and "Spetsoboronmash" in the Zhytomyr region, the Rapid plant, the Chernigov Radio Device Plant, the Techaviakom Scientific and Production Company in the Chernihiv region, as well as the Konotop Aircraft Repair Plant Aviacon in the Sumy region.

In addition, the Krasilovsky aggregate plant in the Khmelnitsky region and the Luch plant of the Prominh Research Center in the Ternopil region were hit. The enterprise of the radio-electronic industry NPP Aerotechnika-MTL, KB Luch in the Kiev region; the Odessa Aviation Plant; the Deviro UAV development and production enterprise in the Dnipropetrovsk region and the Chuguev aviation repair plant in the Kharkiv region were affected.

Rosgvardiya UAV operator

Photo: Global Look Press/Belkin Alexey

— Radio and radio intelligence centers in the Kiev region, workshops for the production of UAVs, explosives and ammunition for attack UAVs in Sumy, Mykolaiv, Chernihiv, Kharkiv and Kiev regions; production sites and control points for UAVs at the Gogolev field airfield in the Kiev region were also affected.

— In addition, the centers of radio intelligence and satellite communications in the Kiev region, the parking lot of combat boats and the workshop for assembling unmanned boats in the Mykolaiv region, the infrastructure facilities of the Shkolny airfield in the Odessa region and the Vishnevoye field airfield in the Kharkiv region were affected.

— On May 26, as a result of a massive strike by high-precision long-range weapons and unmanned aerial vehicles, the infrastructure facilities of the Starokonstantinov airfield in the Khmelnitsky region, ammunition depots of two heavy mechanized brigades in the Kharkiv region and the DPR, the control center of the S-300 anti-aircraft missile division and the temporary deployment point of the special operations forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Odessa region were destroyed.

The armed forces of the Russian Federation will continue to launch massive and group strikes in response to any terrorist attacks and provocations by the Kiev regime, the Russian Defense Ministry stressed. The strikes will be carried out exclusively against military installations and enterprises of the military-industrial complex of Ukraine.

What is known about the Ukrainian military facilities that came under attack

— Pavlograd chemical Plant in the Dnipropetrovsk region produced explosives and was considered strategically important for the military-industrial complex of Ukraine.

— At the Artyom plant in the Kiev region, components of aviation ammunition and elements for UAVs were assembled in workshop No. 4.

— Antonov State Scientific and Production Center produced modules for attack drones in workshops No. 10, 20 and 206 in 2024, and experimental short-range platforms were developed in workshop No. 12.

— The Vizar enterprise in the city of Vishnevoye, Kiev region, produced electronic warfare and guidance system components.

— The Rapid plant in Chernihiv region was engaged in the development, production and supply of sensors and equipment that measures temperature, displacement and acceleration.

Photo: RIA Novosti/Mikhail Markiv

— The Zhytomyr Radio Engineering Equipment Repair Plant "Luch" was engaged in major repairs of the S-75, S-125, S-300 and many other installations.

— The Techaviacom Scientific and Production Company produced rocket weapon components and radio electronics, as well as explosives, rocket fuel and attack UAVs.

— The Krasilovsky aggregate plant in the Khmelnitsky region produced parts of the mechanical part of the anti-tank complex, as well as machine guns. According to recent reports, it was at the Krasilovsky plant that the production of devices for suspending American and British-made aircraft missiles and gliding bombs to Ukrainian Soviet-style aircraft was launched.

— NPP Aerotekhnika-MTL was engaged in the production of radars and their components.

— The Luch Design Bureau in the Kiev region has developed many aviation missiles, the Stugna-P anti-tank complex, as well as the Neptun anti-ship missiles.

— The aviation repair plant in Chuguev was engaged in the repair and modernization of L-39 and MiG-23 aircraft, UAVs, Tu-143 and Tu-143U.