Ukraine SBU claims that drone strike on the ammunition factory in the Russian Samara region

The Ukraine Safety Service (SBU) said that it had struck the Promsintez ammunition plant in Chapayevsk, the Russia Samara region, using drones in the early hours on Saturday, April 5.

Earlier, the Russian state media TASS said that the Ukraine Armed Forces (AFU) had “attacked an industrial company in the Samara region” but had no victim, quoting the governor of the region, Vyacheslav Fedurishchev.

The Russian telegram Astra also shared a video which, allegedly, representing the explosions during the drone strike.

Later, the SBU confirmed to kyiv Post that the agency was behind the drone strike on the ammunition factory and said that “more than 20 explosions” had been recorded, adding that its attacks were directed to “absolutely legitimate military targets”.

“SBU drones have struck the Promsintez factory in the Russian Federation, which produces explosives,” the SBU told kyiv Post.

“At night, SBU Strike Drones attacked the Promsintez factory in Chapayevsk, in the Samara region. This factory is one of the main manufacturers of industrial explosives (ammonal, ammonite, granulitis) in the Russian Federation and the (Commonwealth of independent states)”, the SBU, added, referring to the CIS of the nations of the independent CIS.

The SBU said that the attack had interrupted the factory’s operations.