Russia Claims to Have Dealt Fresh Blow to Ukrainian Sapsan Missile Sites

The ministry did not provide the location of the missile storage site it claims to have targeted.

A prototype of the Hrim-2/Sapsan mobile short-range ballistic missile system during rehearsals for an Independence Day parade in Kyiv, Ukraine, in 2018. Sergienkod

Russian forces have struck a storage site in Ukraine allegedly housing domestically produced Sapsan ballistic missiles, Moscow’s defense ministry claimed on Aug. 17.

“Operational-tactical aviation, attack drones, missile troops, and artillery ... have inflicted damage on a storage area [for] Sapsan operational-tactical missiles and their components,” it said in a statement posted on its Telegram channel.