Russia strikes targets in western Ukraine, will come out of the factory of the listed company in Nasdaq

Russia has launched one of its largest air attacks this year in Ukraine, firing 574 drones and 40 missiles overnight, Ukrainian said on Thursday. The attack mainly targeted the country’s Western regions, the military branch said.

The strikes killed at least one person in Lviv and injured 15 others, according to officials.

Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrii Sybiha said Russia has struck a “major American electronics manufacturer” in western Ukraine.

The western parts of Ukraine are far from the front line of the battlefield in the east and the south of the country. Much of the military aid provided by the Western allies of Ukraine would be transported and stored there.

It was the third largest air attack in Russia this year in terms of number of drones drawn and the eighth largest in terms of missiles, according to official figures.

The strikes took place during a renewed effort in Western countries to achieve a peace regulation in the three -year war after the invasion by Russia of its neighbor.

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemned the attack, saying that he had been done “as if nothing changed at all”.

Moscow has not shown no sign to continue significant negotiations to end the war and urged the international community to respond with stronger pressure, including more difficult sanctions and prices, he said.

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Russia “wasted several cruise missiles against an American company,” said Zelenskyy, noting that it was a company producing national public services, such as coffee machines. “And that too has become a target for Russia. Very revealing.”

The mayor of Mukachevo, Andriy Baloha, said that the damaged company belonged to Flex Ltd., which is a company listed in Nasdaq. The company’s headquarters – global technology, a supply chain and a partner of advanced manufacturing solutions – is located in Austin, Texas, and its head office is in Singapore.

Flex, which comes from a family business founded in Silicon Valley in 1969, employed thousands of residents in the region, said Baloha.

At the time of the impact, 600 night workers were on the spot and six of them were injured, said Andy Hunder, president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine, at the Associated Press.

The Russian Defense Ministry said that strikes were targeting the companies of the Ukrainian industrial military complex “. He said that the attack hit drone factories, storage deposits and missile launch sites, as well as areas where Ukrainian troops have been gathered. Russia has denied several times to target the civil zones of Ukraine.

Ukraine, on the other hand, has maintained its attacks with long -range drones produced at the national level on infrastructure in Russia which supports the war effort of Moscow. Among other objectives, he has achieved oil refineries and the wholesale prices of Russian petrol have reached record heights in recent days.

Ukrainian drones hit the Novoshakhtinsk oil refinery in Russia in a night attack that caused several explosions, the Ukrainian staff said on Thursday. kyiv also attacked a fuel base in the Voronezh region in Russia, and a drone center and a logistics center in Russia, Donetsk said.

Earlier, Zelenskyy said Ukraine will hold intensive meetings to clarify the type of support he can expect from allies. A coalition of more than 30 countries is committed to contributing to security guarantees, but the talks stopped when the United States remained ambivalent in its role.

Zelenskyy reiterated that Ukraine is ready to have direct interviews with Putin. The two leaders have not met in person since the end of 2019, during a rally in which several world leaders attended.

“What if the Russians are not ready? Europeans have raised the issue. If the Russians are not ready, then we would like to see a strong reaction from the United States,” he said.

Ukraine previously expressed the hope that the United States will punish Russia with more sanctions if it does not demonstrate a serious desire to end the war.

Addressing the media on Wednesday, Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergei Lavrov, said that working on security agreements in Ukraine without the involvement of Moscow would not work.