Putin Hits Drone Factory and Other Sites Outside Kiev in Response to Ukraine’s Unhinged Aggression

 

Putin Hits Drone Factory and Other Sites Outside Kiev in Response to Ukraine’s Unhinged Aggression

On May 22, 2026, a Ukrainian drone struck a college dormitory in Starobelsk in Russia’s Lugansk People’s Republic late at night while students were asleep. The attack reportedly killed 21 people, mostly teenage girls, and injured 70 others.

Russia has responded with a large-scale overnight missile and drone strike using precision weapons, including hypersonic missiles, targeting Ukrainian military airfields, defense industry facilities, fuel and transport infrastructure, and a drone production plant linked to President Zelensky across regions including Kyiv, Zaporozhye, Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava, Khmelnytskyi, and Sumy.

Russian Defense Ministry officials stated that all designated targets were hit and described the operation as a response to “terrorist attacks” by Kiev, with President Putin calling it a new chapter in Ukraine’s “crime spree” that would bring “well-deserved and inevitable punishment.”

In a separate incident on Saturday, a fiber-optic-guided drone struck the machine hall of the sixth power unit at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant, puncturing a hole in the building.

Rosatom, which operates the plant under Russian control since 2022, described it as Kiev’s first deliberate attack on the facility’s main equipment and warned that any explosion or fire could cut power and water supplies, creating conditions for a nuclear incident.

Rosatom CEO Aleksey Likhachev stated that radiation from such an event would primarily endanger Ukraine and neighboring EU countries.

Ukrainian authorities denied involvement.

GhostofBasedPatrickHenry: My favorite part of the story is this:

A drone film scouting company linked to Zelensky’s friends became Ukraine’s “miracle” factory that produced all of their long range drones.

How many other film production companies in Ukraine do you think were repurposed for the war effort?

Strange.

These strikes from Russia came in response to Ukrainian aggression; particularly the attacks against the nuclear power plant at Zaporizhzhia—the largest one in all of Europe.

It’s become clear that Ukrainian leadership is growing increasingly unhinged. Just look at that story about Ukraine “accidentally” arming a drone with weapons and flying it toward military targets.

You will recall that sometime over the last week, a drone struck Romania—which is west of Ukraine—and the MSM reported that the drone was Russian. Putin and the lads denied this, of course.

In fact, Putin went public and not only denied it, but suggested that it was likely the West or Ukraine who committed the false flag against Russia.

Accidentally flying a heavily armed drone into Finland.

Attacking the largest nuclear power plant in Europe.

Bombing the hell out of Lebanon.

The thugs in Kiev have grown increasingly bold in their attempt to commit false flag operations.

Accelerate.