Ukrainian forces carried out a series of drone strikes during the night of October 21-22, targeting distilleries in Russia believed to produce materials for the Russian military. According to Tula Oblast Governor Dmitry Milyaev, the strikes damaged distilleries in the towns of Yefremov and Luzhlovsky.
Russian opposition outlet Astra reported that the drone strikes in Yefremov also caused damage to nearby Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) and Federal Security Service (FSB) buildings.
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Footage posted by Russian opposition and insider sources showed a fire near the Yefremov distillery, as well as at a synthetic rubber plant and a thermal power plant located close by.
In Tambov Oblast, Governor Maksim Egorov stated that a drone hit the Biokhim enterprise in Rasskazovo, igniting a fire. Biokhim produces ethyl alcohol, and its website describes its products as being of “strategic importance” to the Russian state. Meanwhile, in Voronezh Oblast, Governor Aleksander Gusev claimed that Russian forces “suppressed” a drone that fell on an industrial enterprise, damaging a workshop.
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Andriy Kovalenko, Head of the Ukrainian Center for Countering Disinformation, stated that Russia uses alcohol factories to produce fuel for military purposes and to manufacture explosives, highlighting the strategic nature of these targets for Ukrainian forces.
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