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The Sun reports strikes on Putin's aircraft production hub

Footage from Voronezh leads a wider Ukraine war compilation that also follows soldiers through underground gas pipes near Kupiansk.

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The Sun Story of October 27, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 876,636 views a day, 16 times a normal first day on this channel (53,862).

Putin’s presidential jet plant in flames after ruthless Ukraine drone blitz

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0:33Captions identify an aircraft plant and petrochemical facility among the Voronezh sites struck by Ukrainian drones.
1:58Civilian recordings show strikes identified as hitting the Energiya plant in Yelets.
3:12The report attributes explosions at Oryol's Proton military electronics plant to Storm Shadow missiles.
5:13Tracking footage shows Ukrainian drones intercepting Russian Shahed and Gerbera drones.
5:39Action-camera footage follows Ukrainian soldiers crawling through underground gas pipes near Kupiansk.
7:20Obolenskyi explains how Operation Veles used an underground approach to counter drone-dominated battlefield conditions.

Residents film explosions from windows and streets in Voronezh, with fires lighting the skyline. The Sun identifies an aircraft factory that builds Russia's presidential planes and a petrochemical facility among the sites hit by Ukrainian drones.

The report drew about 770,000 views in its first 18 hours, already far beyond the channel's usual full-day audience for regular videos. Its description reports that three people were killed in the attacks on the city.

The aircraft plant is the headline subject, but this is a compilation of several strikes and battlefield operations, not a continuous account of the Voronezh attack. It moves to footage identified as missile strikes on the Energiya plant in Yelets, then explosions at the Proton military electronics plant in Oryol. The report attributes the latter attack to Storm Shadow cruise missiles.

Later, the perspective changes from aerial targeting footage to soldiers crawling through underground gas pipes near Kupiansk. Brigadier-General Ihor Obolenskyi, commander of Ukraine's Khartiia 2nd Corps, explains Operation Veles as a way to maneuver behind Russian lines under the threat of drones. His account begins more than seven minutes into the upload, well after the industrial-strike footage promised by the title.

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