# Ukraine Says It Hit Russian Missile Fuel Plant and Launch Complex Sites in Overnight Strikes

*Friday, October 9, 2026 at 10:05 AM UTC — Hamer Intelligence Services Desk*

**Published**: 2026-10-09T10:05:20.364Z (2h ago)
**Category**: conflict | **Region**: Eastern Europe
**Importance**: 9/10
**Sources**: OSINT
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**Deck**: Ukraine’s General Staff says its forces struck three facilities in Russia tied to missile launches, fuel production and explosives, including the Redkinsky Experimental Plant in Tver Oblast. Kyiv links the strikes to a wider campaign that in September hit dozens of air defenses, command posts, logistics hubs and drone-related sites.

Ukraine’s military says it has struck three facilities inside Russia that it links to missile launch systems, missile fuel and explosives, pushing its long-range campaign deeper into Russian territory.

According to Ukraine’s General Staff, overnight strikes hit the Barmin Research Institute of Launch Complexes near Dalnee Konstantinovo‑5 in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. Ukrainian reporting describes the target as a site of a branch of the Center for Operation of Ground-Based Space Infrastructure Facilities (TsENKI), the Barmin research institute. TsENKI operates in the field of creating, maintaining and operating launch pads and related ground infrastructure, and Ukraine says the site was involved in missile launches.

Ukrainian forces also struck the Redkinsky Experimental Plant in Tver Oblast. The plant produces Decilin‑M fuel components used in Kh‑55 and Kh‑101 cruise missiles, as well as ferrocene-based rocket propellant additives. Separate Ukrainian reporting says the plant caught fire and notes this is its second strike in 2026, after an earlier hit in February. Ukraine further cites an attack on an intercontinental ballistic missile disposal center near Surovatikha.

Ukraine presents these hits as part of a broader effort to disrupt Russia’s ability to fire missiles and sustain ammunition supplies. In September, according to Ukrainian figures, its middle‑strike campaign hit more than 30 Russian air defense, radar and electronic warfare systems, over 40 command posts and more than 50 logistics facilities.

Ukrainian reporting lists S‑400 launchers, Buk‑M3 and Pantsir systems and multiple radar types among the targets, as well as more than 20 facilities linked to drone storage, preparation, production and operations. Other confirmed September targets included aircraft such as a Su‑24 and what Ukraine describes as additional high‑value systems.

For people in Ukrainian cities that have been under repeated cruise‑missile attack, strikes on plants like Redkino have a direct meaning: they are aimed at the factories that produce the fuel for the same Kh‑101 missiles Russia used two days earlier against Pryluky, according to Ukrainian accounts.

Inside Russia, such deep strikes bring risk into areas that previously felt distant from the front. Industrial facilities in Tver and Nizhny Novgorod now feature in daily war reporting, and local authorities have to plan around the possibility of further attacks.

The campaign also tests the reach and density of Russian air defenses around what Moscow considers strategic assets. Ukrainian references to recent hits on two of Yandex’s five data centers — one in Ryazan region and another, the company’s largest, in Kaluga — fit into that picture of a widening target set inside Russia.

The key signals now will be whether Ukraine returns to the same plants and research institutes, and how Russian officials talk about redirecting production or reinforcing defenses around Tver, Nizhny Novgorod and other regions hosting missile‑related infrastructure.