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Ukraine’s Flamingo missiles reached more than 1,000 kilometers inside Russia overnight, as air raid alerts sounded in new regions for the first time in the war

Source: Meduza

Ukraine launched a massive overnight drone and missile strike against targets across Russia on June 10. Russia’s Defense Ministry said drones were shot down over 19 regions and occupied Crimea. Authorities declared air alerts across all six regions of the Ural Federal District and, for the first time since the war began, in the Omsk region.

A missile struck Cheboksary, Chuvashia Governor Oleg Nikolayev said. Three people were injured — two in moderate condition, one with minor injuries. The Telegram channel Astra said, citing photos and videos from the scene, that Ukraine had struck the VNIIR-Progress plant. The facility manufactures Kometa navigation modules for drones, cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles. The factory has been hit before — in November 2025 and again in early May 2026.

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In the Samara region, three people were injured in Ukrainian drone strikes, Governor Vyacheslav Fedorishchev said. He added that several industrial facilities had been damaged but did not identify them. Astra said the Kuybyshev oil refinery, owned by Rosneft, caught fire in the attack. One of the Volga region’s leading refineries, it specializes in producing premium-grade gasoline and diesel fuel.

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Fire at the Kuybyshev refinery
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In the Vladimir region, Ukrainian drones set fire to two facilities in the Kameshkovsky and Alexandrovsky districts, Governor Alexander Avdeyev said without identifying the sites. No injuries were reported. Astra and the Ukrainian Telegram channel Exilenova+ said the Vtorovo and Lobkovo oil pumping stations were struck. Both are part of Transneft and supply fuel to the Moscow region, among other areas.

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In Sevastopol, a Ukrainian drone damaged the building that houses the panorama “The Defense of Sevastopol, 1854–1855,” said Mikhail Razvozhaev, the city’s Russian-appointed governor.

The panorama was painted in the early 20th century by Franz Roubaud, who depicted Russian defenders repelling the assault on Malakhov Kurgan on June 6, 1855. In 1942, the building caught fire during a German air raid and artillery bombardment. A third of the canvas was destroyed; the remaining two-thirds were cut into sections and removed to safety. Soviet artists later restored the work.

Sevastopol’s Russian-appointed governor, Mikhail Razvozhaev, said on the morning of June 10 that Ukrainian drones had “practically destroyed” Franz Roubaud’s iconic panoramic painting in an overnight attack. The city’s Defense Museum moved quickly to correct the record, however: surviving fragments of Roubaud’s original canvas were untouched — kept in rooms separate from the panorama building. The canvas on display there was painted by Soviet artists, and museum staff said they would need to conduct an expert assessment to gauge the full extent of the damage.

Because of the “operational situation,” according to the museum, a celebration marking the 243rd anniversary of Sevastopol was canceled. It had been planned for June 14 at Malakhov Kurgan.

Volodymyr Zelensky said after the overnight strike that Ukraine was continuing its “long-range sanctions” against Russian military targets and the oil industry. He said Ukrainian FP-5 Flamingo missiles had reached Cheboksary — at least 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) from the Ukrainian border.

The Kuybyshev refinery in the Samara region and two oil infrastructure facilities in the Vladimir region were struck in the Ukrainian attacks, Zelensky added.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said air defenses shot down four Flamingo cruise missiles and 766 drones over the course of the day.

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