Russia strikes a factory suspected of producing missiles to attack the Moscow flagship

Vizar arms factory in Vyshneve in the southwestern suburbs of Kiev – Photo: AFP

Accordingly, the Vizar factory, located near Kiev’s international airport, produced the Neptune cruise missile, which was developed by the Russian Federation. Ukraine supposedly used to attack the Moskva.

According to the newspaper The Guardian Britain’s attack on April 15 is seen by both sides as the Kremlin’s most important retaliation after the cruiser Moskav – Russia’s top warship – sank in the Black Sea. New developments also show that the war in the capital Kiev is not over yet.

Rescuers and medics are still working at the scene and the number of casualties is still being ascertained.

The Russian Defense Ministry announced that it used “high-precision long-range” weapons at sea to attack the Vizar plant, according to AFP news agency.

The attack on the Ukrainian capital Kiev was one of the first since Russian forces began withdrawing from areas around Kiev in early April.

Before Russia launched the military campaign, the Kiev area had a population of 3.5 million, but after the first shelling, one in two people left the city.

Recently, after the Russian troops withdrew from Kiev, Thousands of displaced residents are preparing to return. Shops have begun to reopen and people are walking on the streets.

However, after two weeks of relative peace in the city, on the morning of April 16, Kiev mayor Vitali Klitschko warned residents that the time was not right to return.

The recent attacks in the Ukrainian capital come after the Russian Defense Ministry announced it would bomb targets in Kiev in response to what Russia called “terrorist and sabotage” attacks, after marshaling The ship Moscow was sunk.

The Pentagon official’s summary report said Ukraine hit the Moskva with two Neptune missiles – contrary to Russia’s claim that the ship lost balance in rough seas when it was towed back to port after stockpiling ammunition. on board exploded.

In a statement late on April 14, the Russian Defense Ministry confirmed that the cruiser Moskva had sunk because of a hole in the hull caused by “the explosion of the ammunition depot a day before and a big storm”.

The Kremlin did not give any details about the possible casualties of the 510 crew of the flagship Moskva and did not release any photos of the destroyed ship. Russia said it also attacked a military vehicle repair plant in Mykolaiv, close to the southern front.