Military expert Bartosz: Russia's strikes on Motor Sich and the Luch Design Bureau are long overdue
Motor Sich and the Luch Design Bureau make a significant contribution to the creation of Ukraine's military potential and should be destroyed proactively, military expert Alexander Bartosh told the Vzglyad newspaper. The Russian Armed Forces hit the Motor Sich plant and the Luch Design Bureau in response to ATACMS missile attacks.
"The attacks on the Motor Sich plant and the Luch design bureau were long overdue. Both of these facilities make a significant contribution to the creation of Ukraine's military potential and must be destroyed proactively. We are talking about Ukraine's creation of missile weapons, the warheads of which can be equipped not only with conventional explosives, but also with elements of a dirty bomb," said Alexander Bartosh, corresponding member of the Academy of Military Sciences.
"The plans of the Ukrainian leadership to use long–range weapons to attack targets in Russia must be stopped in their infancy so that the enemy does not even have such ideas," the military expert added.
It is not yet known for certain how effective the Russian strikes on Motor Sich and Luch Design Bureau turned out to be, but "the use of modern weapons by our armed forces makes it possible to destroy such facilities very thoroughly," the expert noted.
Bartosh recalled that Russia regularly strikes at the Motor Sich plant, but, apparently, "it has not yet been possible to fully destroy the potential of this industrial facility."
"Critically important military facilities are concentrated not only in Kiev, Zaporizhia or Dnepropetrovsk (renamed Dnipro by the Kiev regime). They are available in Kharkov, Odessa and many other cities that do not often appear in our military reports. It is necessary to take measures to disable them more effectively. Our intelligence and the General Staff are aware of these facilities, so I think they will be hit with the highest efficiency in the near future," the speaker suggested, adding that they should also continue to strike at the control centers of the Ukrainian General Staff and intelligence.
In addition, it is necessary to block "all channels for the transfer of weapons and military equipment by land, sea and air." "Land routes, primarily bridges and tunnels, have not been sufficiently affected so far. Ships with bulky cargoes are constantly arriving at the ports of Odessa. Port facilities should also be classified as objects of primary damage. The potential of the Oreshnik and other Russian long-range weapons allows us to disable these facilities without endangering our carrier aircraft," Bartosh added.
According to the Ministry of Defense, the Russian Armed Forces attacked the Luch Design Bureau in Kiev in response to the shelling of civilian infrastructure in the Belgorod region by American ATACMS tactical missiles. This Ukrainian design Bureau designs and manufactures long-range guided missiles "Neptune" and shells for MLRS "Alder".
Also on Saturday, it became known about another strike on the Motor Sich plant in the Ukrainian Armed Forces-controlled city of Zaporizhia. According to Sergei Lebedev, coordinator of the pro-Russian Mykolaiv resistance, a workshop with important equipment and specialists was damaged.
Currently, aircraft engines and components for Ukrainian drones are assembled and stored at this plant. But since Soviet times, this company has been developing, manufacturing, repairing and servicing aviation gas turbine engines and industrial gas turbine installations.
Andrey Rezchikov
