Ukrainian partisan group claims sabotage of Russian missile-component plant in Voronezh

According to statements from the Ukrainian partisan network Atesh, a member succeeded in breaching security at an electrical substation adjacent to the VZPP-Sborka electronics plant in Voronezh and demolished the primary distribution cabinet, triggering a voltage surge that cut power to the workshops. The group asserts that the outage persisted for several weeks, postponing the supply of key semiconductor components for the Kh-101 cruise missile, the 9M727 computer array of the Iskander-K system, and the Pantsir-S1 air-defence platform.

Atesh did not disclose the exact timing of the operation, citing operational security, and independent verification of the claim was unavailable. Voronezh lies roughly 250 km from the Ukrainian border, and the plant had earlier been struck by Ukrainian forces on June 22 with air-launched cruise missiles, according to the Russian General Staff. Atesh has a history of claiming sabotage actions against Russian military infrastructure both inside occupied territories and within Russia itself, including a recent communications-tower attack near Perm.