Ukraine’s Strike on Russian Rocket-Fuel Plant Puts Moscow’s Artillery Firepower Under Pressure
Ukrainian forces say they destroyed two workshops and damaged four more at Russia’s Kombinat Kamensky defense plant in Rostov region, a key producer of solid rocket fuel for multiple-launch rocket systems. Russian sources also acknowledge heavy damage to a major workshop cluster in the August 16 attack. The article unpacks how hitting a single plant could ripple through Russia’s rocket artillery supply chain and the wider war.
A Ukrainian strike on a Russian defense plant that produces solid rocket fuel threatens to weaken one of Moscow’s most feared battlefield tools: its heavy rocket artillery. Ukraine’s General Staff said on 17 August that its forces had destroyed two workshops and damaged four others at the Kombinat Kamensky plant in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, in Russia’s Rostov region. The facility is part of Russia’s military-industrial complex and produces solid rocket propellant for multiple-launch rocket systems including the Uragan, Smerch and Tornado-S, as well as for other missile systems and aviation weapons. Ukrainian accounts say the attack penetrated multiple layers of Russian air defenses, including Pantsir and S-300 systems, to hit at least…
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