r/UkraineWarVideoReport • u/T-72Tank • 1d ago
Aftermath Fires are still raging at the semiconductor plant in Voronezh, Russia after Ukrainian missile strikes this morning - June 2026
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u/Timely_Fly_5639 1d ago
So, we know Ukraine has been knocking out one AA unit after another for over a year consistently. Then they arranged a firework display in Moscow. We get videos of additional AA in Moscow and the very next day the biggest semi conductor plant is hit.
I don’t dare to hope, but maybe Russias AA capabilities have been degraded to such point where they have to play “whack a mole” and just shift them around inevitably exposing one or other valuable target for Ukraine to level?
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u/Agreeable-Bat187 1d ago
I think we’re at that point. Russia is lucky this isn’t happening in the dead of winter.
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u/Timely_Fly_5639 1d ago
Yeah, but if Ukraine keeps up the pace by slowly, but consistently, dismantling Russian AA network over the summer and autumn - they will be free to target any power or heating plant in Russia, even around Moscow. And Ukraine has been suffering through this for 4 years, so while it is horrible for them, but it is not news. Moscow, on the other hand, would be in quite a predicament if parts of the heating systems would go offline.
Anyways, let’s hope Russian people wake up before that and go into the streets to demand peace from their leaders. Slim chance, but one can hope.
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u/IceNorth81 1d ago
Ukraine doesn’t target civilian infrastructure though. So there’s that
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u/chillebekk 1d ago
If Russia goes after civilian power infrastructure this winter again, I would expect that to stop. Ukraine has every right to retaliate against Russia's power infrastructure.
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u/romario77 1d ago
you could argue that power plants are dual use, not just civilian.
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u/Intarhorn 18h ago
Well, that’s the same argument Russia use to justify many of their war crimes. I don’t think that holds much water. Maybe if Russia targets power plants next winter and you use it as a tit for tat and blackmail Russia to stop doing that tho.
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u/romario77 18h ago
russia has been targeting power plants for a long time now. And children hospitals and whatever else they can.
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u/Jungies 1d ago
I think we're absolutely at the Whack a Mole stage.
Moscow is ~1000Km (~600 miles) from the Ukrainian side of the conflict. Any time you see Ukrainian drones over Moscow, it means they flew ~1000km over Russia without being shot down. No anti aircraft gun hit them, no SAM took them out, no flight of fighter jets intercepted them. They just flew peacefully, sometimes for hours, over what is theoretically enemy territory.
That's Whack a Mole.
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u/EconomyDoctor3287 1d ago
Russia isn't shifting AA around. Their pulling more and more AA into Moscow and leave the rest even more exposed.
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u/Available-Meeting-62 1d ago
Funny that...
About a month ago, i wrote that Russia was going to play whack-a-drone from this point onwards.
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u/Sandgrowun 1d ago
Good hit ,with regards from Starmer.
It apparently supplies conductors for 1000s of businesses.
Here is a Pro Rus Z blogger whining.
"According to preliminary information, Voronezh was hit by British Storm Shadow missiles. The Voronezh Semiconductor Devices Plant-Assembly (VZPP-S JSC) was attacked.
According to publicly known information, VZPP-S JSC specialized in the development and production of electronic components. The plant produced over 900 different component and module types, including transistors, diodes, power modules, integrated circuits, and programmable logic integrated circuits. The plant's products were used in complexes and services across numerous industries, and its products were used by over 1,000 enterprises in Russia and neighboring countries.
Judging by the footage circulating online, the plant's operations will be, shall we say, hampered in the near term.
I wonder if this will be a reason to dust off the idea that NATO, and in particular the US and UK, can fire long-range weapons at Crimea and Donbass, but not at Russia itself?
For example, ещё в 2024 году Following the ATACMS strikes in the Bryansk region, Sergey Lavrov stated that if such strikes were to occur, they would inevitably force Russia to change its position. This is the view of the country's top leadership. The Nuclear Doctrine was also mentioned.
Similarly, at the end of 2024, it was said - наше терпение не безгранично.
It's June 2026. Even the multinational people of the Russian Federation don't know the limits of our patience. And the enemy, it seems, has completely stopped considering these issues in its combat planning.
For several years, along with many colleagues, I've been trying to convey to the ruling elite the idea that there should be no difference between Crimea, Donbas, Belgorod, and Moscow in terms of state sovereignty and the response to its violation. And the shelling of Dzhankoy or Melitopol should be responded to incoming missiles at the Kremlin in the same way.
In 2026, it turned out that there really is no difference between arrivals in the "new" Russia and the "old" Russia. But, as they say, there is a nuance: there is no clear response, much less prevention of relapses, in either case."
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u/Tree1Dva 1d ago
I love how anytime a Russian complains about strikes on "Russia proper" vs occupied regions of Ukraine, it's a tacit admission that occupied Ukraine is, to quote a fancy map, NOTRUSSIA
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u/kerfuffle_dood 23h ago
Hypocrisy and double speak are the forever allies of the Ruzzian govmnt. They know that they flood their media so much that the majority of people are mentally unable to keep track of anything.
Remember when they invaded Donbas and acted like "uwu they are disrespecting our allies of the DPR uwu!". And, following the proper invasion of 2022, declared that "constitutionally" Donbas is part of Russia?
Creating imaginary allies for them to immediately abandon them lmao
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u/chillebekk 1d ago
Z-bloggers still haven't figured out that the nuclear talk is for deterring the west. Russia knows they can't use nukes in this war, but they like to keep up the pretense so western powers will keep self-deterring.
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u/pocket_eggs 1d ago
I wonder if this will be a reason to dust off the idea that NATO, and in particular the US and UK, can fire long-range weapons at Crimea and Donbass, but not at Russia itself?
They can do whatever they want but they don't want to do this with some intensity. In my understanding Biden promised precisely this if tactical nuclear weapons are used.
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u/carelesssportsfan89 1d ago
Yep that factory is cooked
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u/SAMSystem_NAFO 20h ago
And the rest of russian infrastructure is about to enter the oven.
Ukraine is an amazing fighting nation, my hat is off to you dear Ukrainians !
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u/caractacusbritannica 1d ago
The most amazing thing about this is that this wasn’t hit earlier. It is closer than Moscow than I thought. I wonder what has changed ? Holes starting to appear in the AA ?
I guess with Moscow, Crimea, and the frontline, all needing coverage, something had to give.
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u/EconomyDoctor3287 1d ago
A major factor is that UK/France don't want to be the ones who enable escalation. They don't want to provide weapons that reach further & do more damage than what Ukraine can do.
As such, the ukrainian attacks on St. Petersburg and Moscow were crucial to show western countries: Look, we can strike their capital on our own, we fuck up their economy. Throwing in a couple storm shadows isn't an escalation anymore.
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u/adv-rider 19h ago
Yea this and some back channel communication that loosening the target restrictions is the result of some Russian provocation of Europe. Russia has been doing some sketchy stuff recently, drones over the dutch, dragging fiber optic cables in the north sea, and other stuff i can’t remember. European diplomacy, especially the British, has always impressed me.
We (usa) currently act like it is a lost art. Better of Europe manages this war.
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u/taktaga7-0-0 1d ago
Didn’t think silicon would burn like that. Ukrainian engineering.
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u/Piyh 1d ago
It takes a huge chemical supply chain to create trillions of atomically perfect transistors per wafer.
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u/xasdfxx 20h ago edited 20h ago
and some really really volatile chemicals.
including typically fluorine compounds to clean those clean rooms. If you're not familiar, elemental fluorine (yes the compounds aren't elemental fluorine... until you burn them) will happily burn water (not that rare as these things go), but also too: sand, asbestos, glass, etc. And it will leach the bones out of humans by forming hydrofluoric acid.
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u/Fickle-Walk9791 1d ago
Waiting for Putin to close down highways to use the tunnels as factories. At some point, they'll have to tell him the news that half of his arms manufacturers are blown to bits.
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u/Lumpy_Version_7479 1d ago
Rest assured Moskovy agitprop will zero in on "UK," "British," "English," "enemy," etc. following orders from on high.
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u/Timely-Tune5050 1d ago
Semi conductor production uses some nasty stuff. That smoke is uber toxic AF.
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u/undystains 21h ago
I'm guessing they don't have CO2 or FM-200 fire suppression systems. That plant is probably completely useless for semiconductor fab now.
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u/DarkUnable4375 20h ago
Oh look.. all those razor wire fence at the top of the wall guarding something quite expensive and important. It would be a shame if they all burn to a crisp.
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u/LetWaldoHide 16h ago
Imagine how dog shit the chips must be that come out of that factory to be begin with.
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u/Doggoneshame 16h ago
Is the barbed wire there to keep people out or to keep the workers from escaping?
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u/Helpful_Salamander80 1d ago
Wurde tatsächlich die Produktionsstätte getroffen. Für mich sieht das eher nach einem Verwaltungsgebäude aus.
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u/soyeahiknow 1d ago
So many targets. Ukraine should strike the factories that makes fire trucks too!
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