While the Trump administration renews its push for a peaceful resolution in Ukraine, Russia launched one of its largest aerial assaults of the year Thursday, targeting the western part of the country.
In total, Moscow deployed 574 drones and 40 missiles across Ukraine. One of the strikes hit Mukachevo, a city near the borders of Hungary and Slovakia. Among the targets: a U.S.-owned electronics facility run by Texas-based Flex Ltd.
The facility, which manufactures household appliances, was operating with reduced staff at the time. While the plant had been evacuated before the strike, several employees and contractors were still injured and taken to the hospital.
My San Antonio has more details on the strike and its fallout:
The missile strike comes less than a week after a summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska that focused on ending the devastating Russia-Ukraine War on August 15.
Zelenskyy visited the White House on Monday, August 18, where he met with Trump for further discussions on a ceasefire, accompanied by other European Leaders including French President Emmanuel Macron, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Finnish President Alexander Stubb, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
On Friday, August 22, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told NBC’s Meet the Press that no meeting is planned between the Russian and Ukrainian leaders.
Russia claims the attacks were aimed at military-industrial infrastructure. But Ukraine sees it differently.
“[Russia] spent several cruise missiles against an American enterprise in Transcarpathia,” Zelensky posted to Telegram. “It was an ordinary civilian enterprise, an American investment. They produced such familiar household items as coffee machines. And this is also a target for the Russians. Very telling.”
Zelensky and other officials say the strikes deliberately targeted civilian infrastructure and American-linked investments, not military sites.
According to its website, Flex positions itself as a major player in the city’s booming industrial sector that “delivers technology innovation, supply chain, and manufacturing solutions to diverse industries and end markets including datacenter, lifestyle, consumer, industrial, automotive, health solutions, and product lifestyle services.”
Elsewhere in Western Ukraine, Thursday’s attacks caused additional damage and casualties. In Lviv, at least one person was killed and several others were wounded.
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Russia wants WW3
Is there proof that Russia did this?
I wouldn’t trust Zelensky for one second.
It is a war zone. Sorry, but they should have found somewhere else to set up shop or moved out of Ukraine when the war started.
Something very definitely smells about the war in the Ukraine. Could have something to do with why Putin said they were there. Something about biolabs? How much money went to the Ukraine? How much money was used for the reason it was sent? Any of that money diverted to buy things for someone the money was not intended for? Can all that money be accounted for? Wasn’t there a report that said that a goodly portion of that money was going into an NGO and coming back to the US and being used for some political uses? Doubt all these questions (and there are a LOT more) have anything to do with that factory, but there are WAY too many questions that should be answered about this whole scenario before the western world makes this money pit a permanent obligation. This definitely not a NATO problem, so really should not be a US problem. We should stay out of it unless they want to buy weapons. Neither side is serious about peace right now. Kind of makes one wonder if they ever will be. One more question. Is this all a planned move to commit the US to a theater in Europe, when the Pacific is where they need to be focused right now?
To me, this is a direct attack on the U.S. Putin is going to keep at it, as it isn’t in his plans to make any kind of peace effort. He laughs at Trump and company for thinking they can pamper him. Trump must give him the ultimatum to evacuate the whole of Ukraine, including Crimea. Ukraine should be fully armed by the U.S. and the West, it should be immediately admitted to NATO, and Russia should be completely isolated from the West. Money interests in Russia will quickly dump Putin, and the whole of Russia will be in revolt to form separate territories representing the different cultures within the country. Once the Russian government falls, the Chinese government will not be far behind. If Putin is allowed to survive, he will be heading West, which is what is in his mind as he recreates the Soviet Union. He will hit North America from the North. He can do a land war because he has no problem sacrificing any number of soldiers. Neither we nor Western Europe can win a land war with him. The way to eliminate him quickly is to unleash massive air power on Russia. The ecn9my there is almost gone, and they cannot build up a major war machine again. Trump can no longer play footsie with Putin, but must treat him like the dangerous enemy he is and defend Ukraine’s right to exist and ALL their people to live in peace
Putin is playing Trump for a fool. When Trump actually imposes secondary tariffs on Russia’s trading partners, Putin will be forced to take Trump seriously.
Putin keeps this up and Trump may just have to take action against a factory inside Russia.