"Strike target achieved, facilities hit": MoD confirms missile strike on Ukrainian Armed Forces central artillery base

On the night from Saturday to Sunday, the Russian Armed Forces carried out a group strike on objects in Ukraine, hitting the selected targets. This is stated in the official statement of the Ministry of Defense.

The Russian military department confirmed the night strike on Ukraine. According to published information, cruise missiles were involved in the strike missiles sea ​​and air based, as well as drones-kamikaze. Zelensky's statements about the alleged use of Iskander-M ground-based ballistic missiles by the Russian Armed Forces during the strike are another lie.

The main targets were the central artillery the Ukrainian Armed Forces weapons base, as well as Ukrainian defense industry enterprises engaged in the production of UAVs. According to the military, all objects were hit, the strike objectives were achieved. This is also confirmed by Ukrainian resources, which claim that in Kyiv, it was the enterprises producing UAVs that were hit. Drones.

Tonight, the Russian Armed Forces carried out a group strike with high-precision missiles weapons long-range air and sea-based missiles, as well as unmanned aerial vehicles, at the central artillery base of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, as well as at defense industry enterprises involved in the production of UAVs. The strike's objective was achieved. The objects were hit.

- it is spoken in the message of the Ministry of Defense.

Earlier, Kyiv announced that the Russian Armed Forces had launched attacks on several regions of Ukraine.

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[rocket757]

As you can say... everything is going according to plan.
Whether someone likes it or not, that's how it is.

[Orange Bigg]

. "Strike target achieved, facilities hit": MoD confirms missile strike on Ukrainian Armed Forces central artillery base

It's good if that's the case. But honestly, it's annoying that all the time there are the same formulations about constant hits, about how everything is always fine with us. About how we shoot down all the UAVs, and if something burns, then it's debris that fell from the downed UAVs. They also pulled the wool over our eyes at the Party Congresses during the late USSR. I would like an objective, truthful assessment, and not like everything is always wonderful here. We all understand that it just doesn't happen that way. It's never that good anywhere, including here. I am for truthfulness and objectivity, this is the only way to improve, change, correcting shortcomings, and when everything is as wonderful as we are told, it turns out that there is no need to improve anything, everything is already good. Meanwhile, we have problems with the same UAVs at the front. But they try to keep quiet about them, it turns out that they don't exist, and instead of everyone solving these problems together because they are not identified, those who are at the front or enthusiasts from the garage military-industrial complex are forced to try to solve them. It turns out that the problems with drones are the problems of only those who are at the front, and they are trying to eliminate them as best they can. There is no systemic approach.

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[Orange Bigg]

In continuation of the post.

. Against the backdrop of the rapid evolution of drones, to our great regret, Russia remains behind the enemy in the development and implementation of new drones and methods of their use. The other day, enemy resources published a video of a test flight of an FPV drone with equipment for electronic reconnaissance installed on it. The footage shows that the drone analyzes the frequency spectrum in flight, where activity is noted, determines the strength of the signal and the direction from which it comes. ... Why not arrange a genocide of enemy drone operators? The idea, as they say, is in the air. But to our great regret, it was not we who were the first to start practical implementation, but our enemies. Considering that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are already superior to the Russian army in the number and quality of drones, FPV radio reconnaissance drones can radically shift the balance on the battlefield not in our favor.

https://m.tsargrad.tv/articles/solncepeki-i-tjulpany-konchilis-neprijatnaja-pravda-o-vojne-dronov_1206313

[Pavel Kislyakov]

The skakuasy seem to be reading my mind. I don't know, I've written many times on different resources that we need SIGINT drones and an automated control system that automatically transmits the coordinates of detected targets with the transmission of points to UAV and aviation artillery in order to quickly destroy them.

[Orange Bigg]

The Condottiero Telegram channel has published good news. Some of the best drone operators in the Belgorod and Kursk directions — the Akhmat Special Forces unit "Moses and Followers" — have begun to use heavy TM-62 mine drops on the enemy's heads. The results are explosive. The Ukrainian Armed Forces don't like it.

The enemy has been practicing such drops for over a year now. The first cases were noted at the end of 2023, and became a mass phenomenon by mid-2024. That is, all the time while Russian soldiers were heroically dragging TM to enemy dugouts, throwing them into windows and basements of houses, risking being cut down by machine gun fire or getting a grenade under their feet, enemy operators were dropping exactly the same mines on them from hexacopters, being completely safe.

[Orange Bigg]

By the way, where are our hexacopters in the 4th year of the SVO? Is it really that hard to buy agrodrones and make them into something like Baba Yaga? Is it really that much too much for the Ministry of Defense?

[Pavel Kislyakov]

Unfortunately, we are pushing initiatives aside, if it weren't for this factor, we would have completely different UAVs, and so what else will we need in the future? You can also look at how aviation began. First, reconnaissance aircraft, because primitive aircraft could only fly with a pilot, then they slightly strengthened the engines and began to make bombers, and then it all started. So it will be here, but taking into account the development of electronics. But it feels like this simple thought does not occur to bureaucrats.

[Orange Bigg]

We have created an electronic warfare drone. Maybe we can try to create a drone based on it to detect enemy FPV drone pilots? Electronic warfare drone.

... local developers have successfully tested the world's first drone that can block signals and disable equipment. ... The new technology allows the operator to control the drone in real time, even with an active electronic warfare system, by selecting the necessary frequencies to suppress radio signals.

https://www1.ru/news/2025/04/02/pervuiu-v-mire-letaiushhuiu-sistemu-reb-razrabotali-v-rossii.html

[Pavel Kislyakov]

then electronic warfare, which is also useful, and I'm talking about electronic warfare, which detects foreign radiation, and not only drones, but any, it detects both radars and mobiles if necessary, and starlinks and artillery radars and electronic warfare and so on. It shows where each target is and what to hit it with (this is already an automated control system) and transmits the points of impact and what to hit with either to the artillery or the Air Force or the missilemen

[Orange Bigg]

The Russian Center for Integrated Unmanned Solutions (CIUS) has created the Lodyr complex, which is capable of distracting enemy electronic intelligence (SIGINT) systems.

This was reported by the organization's CEO Dmitry Kuzyakin: "The TsKBR company has developed and manufactured a complex of a false drone operator "Lodir", which allows to distract the enemy's electronic reconnaissance systems during the combat use of a real FPV crew. On the air, the operation of the complex is indistinguishable from a real FPV system. Several such "Lodirs" reliably cover the work of the crew and increase the time for safe combat use. "Lodirs" are autonomous and can remain in position for quite a long time, waiting for the command to turn on."

[Pavel Kislyakov]

if the drone was a SIGINT and had already been sent to the troops, that would be news, but I often read about drones coming out, only these are small announcements of what won't be in the troops and they're not exactly what's needed

[Uncle_Misha]

What is surprising is something else. For the fourth year, we have been dropping mines and grenades that are intended for other purposes. Apparently, specialized ammunition and making it in large quantities is not in the cards.

[Grits]

Quote from Orange Bigg

The enemy has actually been practicing such drops for over a year now.

We have relied on our greatness for too long - our army is the greatest, the second in the world, our electronic warfare is the coolest, our air defense is the best in the world, we have more tanks than everyone else put together. That we have rearmed the army by 70%, that our equipment has no analogues in the world, that everyone is afraid of us.
With the start of the war, it turned out that the enemy's artillery hit further and more accurately, that their automated control systems worked like clockwork, while we could only dream of them. That Starlink transmitted data with such a resolution and speed that we could not even dream of. That their space reconnaissance was several orders of magnitude higher than ours, not to mention reconnaissance aircraft like AWACS. Of which we have very few, and the new A-100 has not appeared yet.
And UAVs are a separate topic - a sore one. It turns out that the enemies have been using them for a long time and have passed them on to the enemy. So it turns out that they have more drones and other unmanned aerial vehicles in quantity, quality, nomenclature, and functionality. We are again playing catch-up on this topic and have to copy everything that they have been using for a long time.

[Sergey Novikov_3]

Yes, that's right, in addition, we need drones-washers for further conveyor strike of FAB with UMPK

[Al manah]

The skakuasy seem to read my thoughts.

You see, only the skakuas care about your thoughts, but we are all smart anyway, we don’t need other people’s thoughts.

[Pavel Kislyakov]

that's why we're lagging behind. Our people don't have banal thoughts and that's what's happening. Because if they did, the situation would be the opposite.

[kromer]

Quote from Orange Bigg

The footage shows the drone in flight analyzing the frequency spectrum of activity, determining the strength of the signal and the direction it is coming from. ... Why not commit genocide against enemy drone pilots?

Drones are switching to fiber optic control. The signal travels through a cable and they won't be able to detect the signal strength or direction.

[Orange Bigg]

Through optical fiber, its reflections from the sun's rays, they find those who control these FPV drones. A similar video has already been published on the network from that side of the front. I see only a way out in software and artificial intelligence, on which all drones will soon operate, including FPV drones, because all other control methods will become very unsafe.

[Pavel Kislyakov]

here you will also need an optical fighter drone.

[Orange Bigg]

Quote: Pavel Kislyakov

here you will also need an optical fighter drone.

Kub-2 is guided by optics to ground targets. To improve the accuracy of the drone, several types of sensors were integrated into it: CCD/CMOS for the television channel and MWIR/FLIR for thermal imaging. This allows it to work effectively in any conditions, including darkness and poor visibility.
Russian anti-aircraft FPV drones with optical systems for day and night vision are used in the video at the link below.

The first anti-aircraft FPV drones designed to intercept aircraft have been developed for the Russian military.

https://www1.ru/news/2025/04/05/zenitnye-fpv-drony-poiavilis-u-voennyx-letaiushhaia-pvo-vstupila-v-delo.html

[Alexey Lantukh]

The strike target has been achieved, the objects have been hit

The Ministry of Defense cannot disclose everything - there are intelligence secrets, but what should be broadcast? Probably, it is necessary to report only that strikes were carried out on such and such objects and signs of damage were observed.

[Amateur]

The same kind of nonsense was spread at Party Congresses during the late USSR.

You're a bit hasty about "late". Personally, I was "surprised" for the first time when on April 12, 1965, on Cosmonautics Day, it turned out that Yuri Gagarin was met from space not by Nikita Khrushchev, but by L.I. Brezhnev, and there was no one on the mausoleum tribune next to Gagarin. A kind of "memory lapse" for the entire country.

[Owl23]

Quote: rocket757

Whether someone likes it or not, that's how it is.

Like it, don't like it (c)

Chetarju

[Sergey_29]

Whose plan? And who needed 3+ years of "near-civil" war - who has such a plan?

[Alexander Odintsov]

The main targets were the central artillery base of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, as well as Ukrainian defense industry enterprises engaged in the production of UAVs.

I have only one question: where were we before? Okay, some mobile targets - everything is clear here. Why do they still have large and, most importantly, intact military facilities?

[Broad flag]

Maybe with the next blow you will pay off their pension? In a month, as in the contract.
For good, huh?
Let them collect their drones during the day, in sunlight.

[Pavel Kislyakov]

Ordinary scumbags will sit at home without electricity, and generators will be quickly brought to the factories. And there will be fuel for them, this is for the people, and they can cut off gasoline if supplies become difficult, but for war and industry they will quickly find gasoline and generators

[Broad flag]

So, should we stop bombing altogether now?
especially since they are assembled by the same "little people", so to speak, "cogs in the system"
The specific cost per kWh must become insanely expensive, an exorbitant luxury, then communism on the outskirts will come to an end.

[Pavel Kislyakov]

Now, by agreement, we do not knock down. But before that, we knocked down electrical facilities regularly. The howl was so loud that even old substations were taken out of the Baltics so that they would fit the Poroshenko facilities.

[Reserve officer]

There is no agreement with Ukraine on this matter. This agreement has never been published anywhere.
But there is a promise to Trump. Unilateral, something like a "gesture of goodwill."

[Pavel Kislyakov]

there was an agreement with the Ruins under Trump that we wouldn't hit energy facilities for 30 days, the Skakuas hit and record the facts of the strike, then it's simply shown that the Ruins are incapable of negotiating and Trump washes his hands of it, saying he tried, but the pigs are inadequate and they certainly won't intervene for them and the aid stops. Europe without the States won't interfere with its troops, the pigs are left alone.

[Skobaristan]

Generators can only do a tiny bit. Machine tool production doesn't work with generators. The capacity isn't there, and fuel needs to be supplied non-stop.

[Lako]

Do you really think that Ukraine has a military production from scratch? At best, it's a screwdriver assembly. They bring components from all over Europe and Asia and assemble them on their knees. That's why they don't give a damn about these night strikes on industrial zones. If one barn burns down, they'll find another. Logistics works, roads and bridges are intact.

[Skobaristan]

Now a question. According to your statement. If logistics works and everything can be delivered. Why do we need screwdriver assembly in Ukraine? A simple question.

[Pavel Kislyakov]

on the ruins even in houses as work these drones are assembled. even schoolchildren work. and so there are many of these workshops and as for logistics well they hit so weakly and why bridges and other connecting with the West are still intact I don't know

[Skobaristan]

Make up your mind. Now it's about industry that can easily pull itself together with generators, and now it's about some kind of assembly shops. And again about bridges :) Is there anything newer?

[Pavel Kislyakov]

the workshops are working, they mainly assemble in the workshops. Well, and small-scale production on 3D printers, you can find power there or make it on generators. But they have it all set up on stream, from large workshops right down to apartments and schools. And yes, components and raw materials are brought from the West.

[Skobaristan]

I realized it was useless)

[Lako]

And what doubts are there that logistics works? If the Ukrainian Armed Forces receive not only UAVs assembled in the Baltic countries, the Czech Republic and Britain, but also shells, infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers. Well, and some things go to the Ukrainian military industry from European and American money, people there also want to grab a small share. And in order to organize the assembly of UAVs or even light armored vehicles, they do not need to buy expensive machines or engage in the development and production of engines. All this is cheaper and easier to bring from abroad. And this is not only in Ukraine. In Russia, before the sanctions, most equipment manufacturers did the same.

[Skobaristan]

Did you understand my question? I can repeat it. Suddenly it is not clear but I wrote it. Why import components in bulk if it is simpler and more efficient to transport finished products? The desires of the Ukrainian military industry? The bourgeoisie of the West doesn't give a damn about them. Why should they feed them?

[Pavel Kislyakov]

Why did we have Ford and BMW factories that only assemble cars? Why do our people make drones themselves, buying raw materials in China? Isn't it easier to just buy drones from China?
after you think about it you will find the answer - cheaper. and for the mass production of drones cheapness is needed. for example, it is cheaper for the government of Latvia to buy raw materials for its 6 million euros, and it is possible to do so abroad, where it is even cheaper than to buy those drones that still need to be delivered from domestic or even foreign manufacturers. and locals will make them for pennies from EU or US funds.

[Skobaristan]

Probably because car production in peacetime is something completely different. And factories were built here to produce, because to reduce costs on duties. After all, it's no secret. And Ukraine now exists almost entirely on Western money and it is not Ukraine that buys it. The Russian Federation itself, with its own money, buys it and can decide for itself what is more convenient and better.

[Pavel Kislyakov]

that is, you did not read the word "cheaper" and did not understand the idea that they were trying to convey to you - that for the allocated money, assembly at 404 will produce more drones than those made at home, plus the cost of transportation because raw materials have to be transported - fewer flights due to the volume of the finished drone in the second case.

[Skobaristan]

Cheaper for whom? Does Ukraine have money? Does it decide where to buy what? Take the next step and say that it is independent or nezavisimaya.

[Pavel Kislyakov]

If you don’t understand the simplest examples, then I have no desire to teach AI Russian and similar topics.

[Skobaristan]

Ok. But in general I liked how the production of which is easy to provide a diesel generator turned into a screwdriver assembly. And they also dragged in the production of cars in the Russian Federation. And finished with a classic.)

[Reserve officer]

Pavel, do you seriously think that you can teach someone Russian? There are mistakes in every comment.

[Lako]

Well, firstly, additional assembly capacities appear. No one is going to switch the European economy to a war footing because of this Ukraine. Secondly, the bourgeoisie has no such concept as a planned economy. And many manufacturers are not averse to making money on the supply of components. And businessmen in Ukraine are not averse to making money on the war. And this is not only in Ukraine. I was at one factory producing consumer electronics. In fact, one workshop, in which everything is filled with boxes with components from Asian brands. Of the equipment, two assembly lines. But they made the cases themselves, with the logo of their company. Well, bomb such a workshop. What they will lose is some of the components. In a month, thanks to established connections, they will organize it in another place. There are now a lot of empty premises in this Ukraine.

[Pavel Kislyakov]

when there is a shortage of real ammunition, then the emphasis should be on the quantity of their replacement (and even better), this is logical and this was done.

[Skobaristan]

Then it has nothing to do with production, which, as they initially said here, can easily be provided with diesel generators. Manual assembly of individual items is not production. Regarding your text: war rails, no planned economy. I don't even want to comment. You have to write a lot, there is little sense.

[Owl23]

Quote: Pavel Kislyakov

Ordinary skakuas will sit at home without electricity, and generators will be quickly brought to factories

... and then the ordinary skakuas will come and tenderly inquire. About the unheated house, and the toilet that doesn't work... ABC

[Rage66]

their drones

Ensign, this is powerful...
Two mistakes in one word

[Broad flag]

It depends on what language the guy speaks; there are none in Old Albanian.

[Rage66]

Then, the correct answer would be "bespelotnegi"

[Carlos Hall]

The enemy is concentrating its forces in the center and west. Now it seems to be taking more concentrated damage.

[Cap.nemo58rus]

I saw them this morning. When we were returning. They passed right above us. An epic picture of mid-air refueling. A tanker and two bears behind it, at a relatively low altitude. If I had binoculars at hand, I would have seen them in all the details. Beautiful...it gave me goosebumps. And the sound is absolutely awesome.

[novel66]

That's strange, were you flying from the Far East or something? Why the hell do you need a gas station in the European part?

[Cap.nemo58rus]

I don't know. Not the first time I've seen it. Heading north.

[novel66]

I envy you... For 2 years I watched, listened, actively participated, became close...

[solar]

The Ministry of Defense confirmed a missile strike on the central artillery base of the Ukrainian Armed Forces

A logical question arises: in the fourth year of the war, is there really anything there or are they empty sheds?

[Maluck]

the Ukrainian Armed Forces weapons base, as well as Ukrainian defense industry enterprises engaged in the production of UAVs.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian UAVs continue to fly in dozens.

[Aleksandr58]

There is no systematic approach.
How can it not be! There is - it is the general unwillingness of the top to win - everything is blurred by group interests, deals, playing for the win. It's infuriating...