A workshop and an administrative building at the Vizar plant, in the Kyiv suburb of Vyshneve near the international Zhuliany airport, were seriously damaged.
Russia had earlier announced it had hit the factory using Kalibr sea-based long-range missiles.UkraineRussia's defence ministry spoke only of a fire breaking out and of exploding ammunition. Moscow said more than 500 sailors had been evacuated, but there was no independent confirmation of the fate of the crew.According to a statement on Ukraine's state weapons manufacturer Ukroboronprom website, the Vizar factory produced Neptune missiles.
The governor of Ukraine's southern Odesa region, Maxim Marchenko, had said on Thursday local time that the Ukrainian army had used Neptune missiles to strike the Moskva. Moscow did not confirm this explanation for the sinking of its massive vessel, saying only that a fire broke out on board the 186-metre-long ship.Read more on the Russian invasion of Ukraine:
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