Russian strike hits missile unit outside Kyiv

Russia had earlier announced it had hit the factory using Kalibr sea-based long-range missiles. 

A Ukrainian military factory outside Kyiv that produced missiles allegedly used to hit Russia’s Moskva warship was partly destroyed by overnight Russian strikes, an AFP journalist at the scene saw on Friday.

A workshop and an administrative building at the Vizar plant, which lies near Kyiv’s international Zhuliany airport, were seriously damaged. 

Russia had earlier announced it had hit the factory using Kalibr sea-based long-range missiles. 

The strike came a day after Ukraine claimed it had destroyed Russia’s Moskva warship, which Moscow later said had sunk.

According to a statement on Ukraine’s state weapons manufacturer Ukroboronprom website, the Vizar factory produced Neptune missiles.  

Andrei Sizov, a 47-year-old owner of a nearby wood workshop, said the strikes came at night. 

“Around 1:30 am, my security guard called me because there was an air strike,” he told AFP.