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FACTORY MAKING VARIOUS DRONES IN KYIV HIT

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09/17/2026

10:34

FACTORY MAKING VARIOUS DRONES IN KYIV HIT
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MOSCOW, SEPTEMBER 17 /SRNA - RIA Novosti/ - Russian armed forces targeted a factory in Kyiv where various models of drones, including the medium-range RAKS-2, were produced, the Russian Ministry of Defense said today.

According to the statement, Russian forces carried out massive and coordinated strikes overnight against companies in the metallurgical and radio-electronics industries, defense-industrial complexes, energy facilities, transport infrastructure and vessels.

An industrial facility, a company producing components for long and short-range drones, and a drone manufacturing plant were hit in Kyiv and the Kyiv Region. Long and short-range unmanned aerial vehicles were stored at the latter facility.

The Russian armed forces also struck a cargo ship in a port in the Odesa Region and two bridges over the Dniester River through which military cargo was transported from Romania and the port of Izmail.