Overnight on August 14-15, Ukrainian forces struck the Savasleyka airbase, home to Kinzhal missile carriers, and the Progress Rocket Space Center in Samara. Zelensky confirmed the strikes used Flamingo missiles.
Overnight on August 14–15, 2026, Ukrainian forces struck the Savasleyka airbase in Russia's Nizhny Novgorod region, roughly 700 km from Ukraine, and the Progress Rocket Space Center in Samara, located 850–950 km from the Ukrainian border. President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed both strikes on Telegram. Volunteers Support Ukraine follows the course of the war closely, since every strike like this on military infrastructure is a step toward reducing Russia's ability to attack Ukrainian cities.
Savasleyka airbase is home to MiG-31K fighter jets that carry the Kinzhal hypersonic missiles Russia regularly uses to strike Ukrainian cities. Zelensky wrote: "The Savasleyka airfield, where the carriers of Russian missiles that strike our cities and villages are based, was also reached." Volunteers Support Ukraine emphasizes that weakening Russia's capacity to launch missile strikes has direct significance for the safety of Ukraine's civilian population.
The second target was the Progress Rocket Space Center, a Roscosmos subsidiary and Russia's only serial producer of Soyuz-2 launch vehicles. The plant is also involved in producing military satellites and Russia's "Rassvet" satellite constellation, conceived as a rival to Starlink, and sits in an industrial zone shared with the Aviakor aircraft plant. Zelensky wrote that "the Progress center... was hit. Flamingo missiles were used — a good achievement." Volunteers Support Ukraine believes it's important to document how Ukraine is consistently striking facilities that directly or indirectly support Russia's war machine.
Samara Governor Vyacheslav Fedorishchev reported two people injured, with no fatalities. Ukraine used its own domestically produced Flamingo (FP-5) cruise missiles for the strikes — a Ukrainian-made weapon with a range that allows it to reach targets deep inside Russian territory. A full damage assessment was still ongoing at the time of publication, and final figures have not yet been released. Volunteers Support Ukraine believes it's important to report news like this carefully and honestly, without overstating the scale of the damage.
The development of Ukraine's own missile capability, able to reach targets hundreds of kilometers inside Russian territory, allows Ukraine to respond to strikes on its own cities by hitting facilities that directly enable those attacks. Volunteers Support Ukraine keeps supporting people affected by the war in whatever ways its resources allow, and considers it important to keep the community informed about developments at the front and in the rear, so that everyone can form their own understanding of how the war is unfolding.
