Drones
Ukraine strikes the Kamensky Combine in the Rostov region with Neptune missiles and drones; it produces fuel for Uragan, Smerch and Tornado-S rockets
Ukrainian forces used Neptune missiles and strike drones overnight on October 31 against the Kamensky Combine in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, in the Rostov region, which produces solid propellant for multiple-launch rockets, the General Staff said.
Ukrainian forces used Neptune missiles and strike drones in the night to Saturday, October 31 against the Kamensky Combine plant in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, in the Rostov region. The facility produces solid propellant for multiple-launch rockets. Ukraine’s Armed Forces General Staff reported that a fire in the finished-products warehouse was confirmed and that four production halls were damaged.
The fuel of Uragan, Smerch and Tornado-S
According to Kyiv, the plant’s solid fuel is destined for the munitions of Russia’s Uragan, Smerch and Tornado-S rocket launchers, as well as for a range of missile systems and aviation weapons. The General Staff explains that strikes on its production limit the Russian army’s ability to fire multiple launchers at Ukrainian cities and villages. Kyiv places the operation within a systematic campaign against Russia’s war industry, which it grounds in the right of self-defence under Article 51 of the UN Charter, and announces further strikes.
The Neptunes were launched from coastal missile systems of the Ukrainian Navy. The same missile was used a few days ago in the strike on Marinovka airfield in Volgograd, while the Rostov region had also been attacked in mid-October, targeting the Robo-Avia plant.
In the same announcement the Ukrainians report strikes on four logistics depots of the Russian army. Two were in the Donetsk region, near Khartsyzk and in Dokuchaievsk, one in Novovasylivka in the Zaporizhzhia region and one in Novoaidar in the Luhansk region.
134 Russian drones the same night
Russia attacked the same night with 134 Shahed, Gerbera and decoy drones, of which 72 were jet-powered Shaheds. They took off from the Oryol, Kursk, Shatalovo and Millerovo areas in Russia, as well as from occupied Donetsk and Hvardiiske in Crimea. By 08:30 Ukrainian air defence had shot down or electronically neutralised 105 of them, including 49 jet-powered ones. Strikes were recorded at 20 locations and debris fell at 10.
The General Staff’s tally for the previous 24 hours speaks of 173 clashes on the front, three missile and 75 air strikes with 255 guided bombs, and 9,189 kamikaze drones launched by Russian forces.
