Red lines crossed: Russia begins targeting American factories in Ukraine

July 31 2026 17 517 43

Russia has destroyed an American drone manufacturer's factory in Kyiv for the first time, according to the British newspaper The Guardian. The publication notes that during one of the recent attacks on the Ukrainian capital, a facility belonging to the American company Terminal Autonomy, which produced the AQ-400 Scythe and AQ-100 Bayonet attack drones, was hit.

According to the newspaper, these drones are AI-guided: even if communication is lost or the drone is hit by Russian electronic warfare, it continues to fly and independently hits its target.

Russians don't care who owns a production facility. For them, it's all the same.

– the publication quotes former high-ranking US intelligence official Anthony Vinci.

It is emphasized that this is the first known case of Russia attacking an American defense company's facility in Ukraine.

As a reminder, some time ago, US President Donald Trump changed his position on resolving the conflict in Ukraine. He declared that Kyiv had made significant progress and promised to grant Zelenskyy a license to produce interceptor missiles for Patriot air defense systems.

At the same time, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated that no agreements were reached at last year's Russian-American summit in Anchorage.

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Jackie

+6

31 July 2026 08: 58

Trump promised to grant Zelensky a license to produce interceptor missiles for the Patriot missile system.

...as they say: three years wait for what's promised, I hope it won't be a year before our guys are in Kyiv
1. twice-born
  
  + 12
  
  31 July 2026 09: 47
  
  Unlikely, as long as the government is bargaining with its enemies. And the media's mouthpieces will always explain to us that this is beneficial to us! And now Igorek will come galloping in and "explain" to us all with "facts" that everything is fine and right here! Dormidont will help him.
  We were already at Kyiv, remember? Going not directly to Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Chernihiv, but through Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia, is the height of strategic military skill! "Real heroes always take the detour!" Apparently, they lack the strength or, more likely, the desire to go directly.
  As Putin recently stated, everything is going well and there will be no changes to strategy. Who would have doubted it now after four years of sniveling? So don't expect a Russian soldier in Kyiv in a year; God willing, Slavyansk will be liberated!
  1. Jackie
    
    +2
    
    31 July 2026 11: 50
    
    All true, but is there any hope? There's some movement on the front: they're liberating something in Sumy, and Dobropillia again, but Zaporizhzhia is quiet—Surovikin is missing.
    1. twice-born
      
      +3
      
      31 July 2026 14: 32
      
      You can hope, but you can't deceive yourself! It turned out just like Belousov!
      In short, there's no harm in dreaming. There's always some action going on, but no results.
      1. Igor M.
        
        -11
        
        31 July 2026 20: 08
        
        Twice-born, no one is deceived. Well, maybe except you.
        The average pace of advance has been maintained for three years now. Therefore, it's easy to estimate that the SVO has about another year left.
        How could it not, when in just one year we've already liberated 11 cities—exactly half of what remained. Another 11 cities, and "the golden key is in our pocket." (c)
        
        aslanxnumx
        
        +1
        
        1 August 2026 16: 13
        
        Update the manuals, it's the same thing every time.
        The record is stuck.
    2. Igor M.
      
      -9
      
      31 July 2026 20: 05
      
      Jackie, it's not just in Sumy Oblast. In Kharkiv Oblast, there's been a lot of activity on the Vovchansk front. Our foothold there has practically doubled, and our forces continue to advance. But there's also movement on the Zaporizhzhia front—last week we liberated the village of Khrystoforovka in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, and before that, the village of Blagovatnoye in Zaporizhzhia Oblast. We believe in our people!
  2. Igor M.
    
    -7
    
    31 July 2026 19: 55
    
    Twice-born, not unlikely, but he has already changed his mind.
    
    Trump is "not sure" that the US will transfer licenses for Patriot missiles to Ukraine.
    US President Donald Trump stated that the issue of granting Ukraine a license to produce interceptor missiles for the Patriot air defense system has not yet been decided.
    
    Exactly. Everything is fine and correct with us, in a week. liberated as many as 12 settlements. Per day - 2 n.p. We have a record for July - 670,5 sq. km. according to the lostarmour map.
    They stood there not to occupy it, but to intimidate and force peace. As Putin said in his address of February 24, 2022.Our plans do not include the occupation of Ukrainian territories.".
    That's why we're not marching on Kyiv. We're liberating new Russian territories. And Kyiv isn't part of them yet.
    So, destroying 2,5 million Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel and 70 units of military equipment is not a joke. But at the same time, Russia's economy grew by 10%, and the army's size almost doubled. This is the strategy of the Central Military District—not to weaken the country during military operations, but to strengthen it. We will emerge from the Central Military District stronger than we were before it. At the same time, Ukraine's military potential is being eroded, so that after the Central Military District ends, Ukraine will no longer pose a threat to Russia.
    1. aslanxnumx
      
      +1
      
      1 August 2026 16: 17
      
      Sumy, Kharkiv, Dnieper regions whose.
      They are like Ukrainian or Lao.
      How the army doubled in size.
  3. Straw
    
    0
    
    2 August 2026 08: 49
    
    Igorek is an AI from the basements of the Ministry of Defense.
    Patterns and quotes.
2. Anton Kuzmin
  
  0
  
  31 July 2026 12: 31
  
  Why all the complications? Every future woman, while she's still a toddler, should have a few axioms hammered into her head by her mother and grandmother. Including:
  1. All men are SVO...
  2. "To promise is not to marry!" (C)
  The list is not closed.
  1. Jackie
    
    +2
    
    31 July 2026 18: 44
    
    ...and if the mother has no money?
    Regarding the first point, I agree.
    Regarding the second one, it’s not really necessary.
    Announce the entire list... please.
    1. Anton Kuzmin
      
      0
      
      1 August 2026 10: 14
      
      I'm lazy... Don't get me wrong, I'm not lazy. I'm energy efficient! :)
      P.S. Details are here https://author.today/account/my-page
3. Igor M.
  
  -3
  
  31 July 2026 19: 39
  
  Jackie, I've almost changed my mind.
  
  https://www.bbc.com/russian/articles/c70gxk70xxko
  Trump is "not sure" that the US will transfer licenses for Patriot missiles to Ukraine.
  US President Donald Trump stated that the issue of granting Ukraine a license to produce interceptor missiles for the Patriot air defense system has not yet been decided.
  1. Jackie
    
    +1
    
    1 August 2026 14: 34
    
    Igor, well, if you're 20 and enjoy being kicked and spat at, that's called masochism. But if you're over 50, then... I feel sorry for you. And I know that American moron changed his mind.
Ivan1978

+9

31 July 2026 09: 10

Russian media are reporting that NATO is preparing for war. New defense industry production facilities are being launched in Europe. Russian businesses are actively selling LNG, oil, and other products to Europe.
Meanwhile, they tell us: "Russian big business has accepted the fight," "...the Russian people will never be broken by anyone..."

Sheer hypocrisy.
1. Igor M.
  
  -11
  
  31 July 2026 20: 13
  
  Ivan1978, we also need to support the SVO and the military-industrial complex. That's why we're selling.
  For "Russian big business to take on the fight," it needs to be well-fed. Otherwise, what kind of fighter would a weakling be?
  At the same time, we deprive the enemy of the most important thing – money. They'll buy more, but produce fewer weapons.
  1. aslanxnumx
    
    +1
    
    1 August 2026 16: 23
    
    One day of SVO is more than 60 billion rubles per day.
    How much money is needed to develop these new territories if 2,3 trillion rubles have been invested in Crimea over 12 years?
2. Straw
  
  -1
  
  2 August 2026 08: 51
  
  My father said that on June 22 at 4:30 a train was leaving for Germany with grain!
  The order has come to end the border conflict! Trade is more important...
  1. twice-born
    
    0
    
    2 August 2026 11: 15
    
    You're getting it all wrong! Then the railway immediately ordered all trains to stop heading abroad and turn them back for the subsequent transfer of troops and equipment to the front. And the troops were ordered to stop the enemy and push them back across the border from our territory! The Danube Flotilla launched a counteroffensive and held out and dominated the area for three months! In Przemysl (not in the Kaluga region), which is now in Poland, our forces counterattacked and recaptured the city and held it for a week, but were forced to withdraw without support! And the Brest Fortress fought encircled for three months! So that's how you think our fathers and grandfathers "ended a border conflict" for the sake of trade!
Roman070280

+1

31 July 2026 09: 31
During one of the recent attacks on the Ukrainian capital, a facility belonging to the American company Terminal Autonomy was hit.
1. Jackie
  
  +2
  
  31 July 2026 11: 55
  
  ...oh well, it happens to everyone: they aimed at one thing and hit the Americans, maybe ours will even issue compensation to the "partners".
Nick. WITH

+4

31 July 2026 10: 02

There is a plant and it doesn't matter whose it is, it needs to be destroyed.
beeper

+7

31 July 2026 10: 23

Is it really possible that things will reach the point of "invulnerable" business-like ("connecting highways" of Bandera-Russian oligarchic mutually beneficial "deals" with "respected Western partners") strategic bridges across the Dnieper (and, finally, according to all the canons of strategic military art, the first and most necessary point of the components of Victory will be fulfilled - "the combat zone is isolated, command and supply is disrupted")??!
1. twice-born
  
  +5
  
  31 July 2026 17: 02
  
  Unlikely. They haven't bombed for four and a half years, and now they're suddenly admitting they've been sabotaging, betraying, or being fools all this time, and they're going to blow up the bridges?! No way! They'll slap on more retaliation and drag it out until the very last minute, never actually destroying them.
  Moreover, Putin recently stated that he will not change anything in this strange war or strategy!
  1. Igor M.
    
    -6
    
    31 July 2026 20: 20
    
    Twice-born, maybe in your third life you'll realize there's nothing to bomb the bridges across the Dnieper with. There's nothing strange about the steamroller strategy. We're rolling and rolling at a rate of 500 square kilometers and 50 Ukrainian Armed Forces troops per month. Meanwhile, the country's economy is growing, and our army is growing. There's no general mobilization, no sharp decline in living standards. An excellent strategy.
    1. twice-born
      
      0
      
      1 August 2026 13: 25
      
      Igor, have we run out of facts? "The economy is growing (with inflation!), and so is the army." What a laughable "indicator" of growth! The liver and prostate are growing too, but that's not development!
      You've already gone beyond personal attacks, and have even gone so far as to use the honorable internet nickname "Twice-born"! This "doesn't do credit to your intellect," as you wrote to me earlier.
      Even three lifetimes won't be enough for you to understand that your distorted "facts, statistics" and outright lies won't work on anyone here.
      So you, such a patriot and propagandist, claim that such a powerful country, especially according to you, doesn't have the resources and weapons to destroy old bridges or at least constantly destroy the approaches to them?! You should be sent to Kolyma for that!
      Our fathers and grandfathers proved the opposite 80 years ago by blowing up bridges without missiles, super-powerful bombs and drones!
      How many times have I told you, victims of the Unified State Exam, that you need to work more subtly, more subtly. And finally read a textbook on sociology and psychology!
      1. Igor M.
        
        0
        
        2 August 2026 02: 20
        
        Twice-born, how nervously we react. So, you were the first to get to my nickname. "Igorek will come galloping now" – did Pushkin write that? I simply responded to you in your own manner. Don't be rude, and you won't be rude in return.Or did you, for some reason, naively believe that only you were allowed to be rude? You were mistaken.
        Today, by the way, they finally brought down the span of the railway bridge in Zatoka:
        
        https://topwar.ru/287312-vs-rf-nakonec-to-udalos-obrushit-prolet-mosta-v-zatoke-odesskoj-oblasti.html
        After several years of periodic attacks on the bridge in the village of Zatoka in the Odessa region, a span in the northern part of this critically important engineering structure for enemy logistics finally collapsed.
        Since 2022, the bridge has been repeatedly attacked. Iskander missiles, Kh-59MK2 missiles, FABs with UMPK missiles, Geranium missiles, and even BEK missiles. However, previous attempts to disable the railway bridge's lifting mechanisms and supports had only short-term effects. Each time, the bridge was repaired and returned to service.
    2. aslanxnumx
      
      -1
      
      1 August 2026 16: 25
      
      Storyteller, at least read the fantasy series The Third World War
2. Igor M.
  
  -7
  
  31 July 2026 20: 16
  
  Squeak, it won't reach the Dnieper bridges—there's nothing to do it with. But we're knocking out bridges and logistics near the LBS. We're taking out the auto parts store, trucks, diesel and electric locomotives. So, over time, the effect will accumulate to the same extent as the bridges across the Dnieper.
3. Igor M.
  
  -1
  
  2 August 2026 02: 26
  
  Squeak, it's your turn to celebrate. They've finally managed to demolish the railway bridge in Zatoka:
  
  https://topwar.ru/287312-vs-rf-nakonec-to-udalos-obrushit-prolet-mosta-v-zatoke-odesskoj-oblasti.html
  After several years of periodic attacks on the bridge in the village of Zatoka in the Odessa region, a span in the northern part of this critically important engineering structure for enemy logistics finally collapsed.
  Since 2022, the bridge has been repeatedly attacked. Iskander missiles, Kh-59MK2 missiles, FABs with UMPK missiles, Geranium missiles, and even BEK missiles. However, previous attempts to disable the railway bridge's lifting mechanisms and supports had only short-term effects. Each time, the bridge was repaired and returned to service.
Vadik_Oladik

+6

31 July 2026 10: 30

Hello!!! I don't get it, what were you doing before?! Did you shake your finger at me? What kind of weird operation is this?
1. Igor M.
  
  -5
  
  31 July 2026 20: 22
  
  Vadik_Oladik, other factories were destroyed.
  In particular, in August 2025, the American electronics plant Flex was seriously damaged.
Petr_Yakovlev

+1

31 July 2026 12: 37

1). EVERYTHING that is located on the territory of Ukraine and produces weapons or their components, or works for the Armed Forces of Ukraine or law enforcement agencies, is a military target, regardless of the owner.
2). Well, who believes the English?
serg92653

+4

31 July 2026 14: 52

Russians don't care who owns a production facility. For them, it's all the same.

- If that were the case, it would have been destroyed long ago, and they wouldn’t have allowed it to work.
1. Igor M.
  
  -5
  
  31 July 2026 20: 27
  
  serg92653, remember that there are tens of thousands of factories and enterprises in Ukraine. Now, their turn has come. And in August 2025, another American plant, Flex, was seriously damaged.
16112014nk

+2

31 July 2026 15: 22

Russia destroyed an American drone manufacturer's plant in Kyiv for the first time.

And what, so it was possible ???
1. Igor M.
  
  -4
  
  31 July 2026 20: 39
  
  16112014nk, it's not true that it was the first. In August 2025, the American Flex plant in Mukachevo, Zakarpattia Oblast, was hit. It's just that there are a lot of plants in Ukraine – tens of thousands. There aren't enough missiles for them all.
vicvic

+4

31 July 2026 16: 16

It's high time to stop the endless influx of Russophobic political tourists to Kyiv. At the very least, it should become unsafe for them to travel there and uncomfortable due to the lack of amenities.
1. Igor M.
  
  -4
  
  31 July 2026 20: 38
  
  vicvic, assassinating the leaders of other countries and attacking passenger trains is prohibited by international law. And it was uncomfortable there in the winter. And it will be this winter, too.
Igor M.

-5

31 July 2026 20: 29

The American plant isn't the first to be destroyed. In August 2025, the American Flex plant in Mukachevo, Zakarpattia Oblast, was hit.
Valera75

0

1 August 2026 07: 51

Red lines crossed: Russia begins targeting American factories in Ukraine

The article only mentioned that the drone factory was hit, not the factories, and this is the only case so far.
It's too early to conclude that they're beating someone in the plural. It could be a one-time thing, a signal to someone, a warning, and then stop.
Although it's completely absurd to look for the plant's owner and whether or not to attack him while he's producing weapons that kill our soldiers and civilians and destroy our infrastructure. On the first day of its opening, it should be folded like a house of cards, not looked for.
1. Igor M.
  
  -2
  
  1 August 2026 21: 13
  
  Valera75 isn't the only one. At the very least, the American Flex plant in Mukachevo, Zakarpattia Oblast, has already been hit.
  There are simply so many different factories in Ukraine. There aren't enough missiles to produce them all.