Ukraine has confirmed the first massed use of its domestically produced Flamingo long-range missile in a night-time strike package that hit “several dozen” targets across Russia and occupied Ukrainian territory, including oil infrastructure, airfields and command posts.
In a statement on the morning of 13 November, Ukraine’s General Staff said Defence Forces units conducted coordinated strikes “to reduce the military-economic and offensive potential of the Russian aggressor”, using Flamingo and Bars missiles alongside Liutyi strike drones and other unmanned systems.
According to the same statement, in occupied Crimea the attacks hit the Morskoy Oil Terminal in Feodosia, helicopter parking areas and storage and preparation sites for unmanned aerial vehicles at the Kirovske airfield, as well as an air-defence radar station near Yevpatoria on the peninsula’s western coast.
On the occupied part of Zaporizhzhia region, Ukrainian forces reported strikes on an oil depot near Berdyansk and on forward command posts of Russia’s 5th Combined Arms Army and the 127th Motor Rifle Division, described as elements involved in directing Russian operations on that sector of the front.
The General Staff added that “objects on the territory of the Russian Federation were also hit”, without publicly listing them, and said the scale of damage was still being clarified.
However, video from Russian regions circulated overnight on social media, including from the city of Oryol, where CCTV footage captured a powerful flash consistent with a large explosion, followed by burning debris falling over a residential area after what local authorities called a combined drone and missile attack.
Separately, Russian and Ukrainian outlets reported a major fire at the Nizhnekamskneftekhim petrochemical complex in Nizhnekamsk, Tatarstan, more than 1,000 kilometres from Ukraine. Regional media said a production unit at the plant caught fire, with large plumes of smoke visible; local officials did not immediately comment on the cause. Ukrainian military channels and commentators have linked the blaze to the same strike wave, though this has not been confirmed by Kyiv.
Ukraine’s General Staff released a short video showing the night-time launch of Flamingo missiles from ground launchers, describing the salvo as evidence of a “complex strike” using long-range weapons of domestic design. Ukrainian commentators characterised the operation as a milestone, arguing that the scale of the salvo indicates both series production of Flamingo and the existence of infrastructure for near-simultaneous launches of multiple missiles.
In addition to cruise missiles, Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces reported a separate FP-2 “super-heavy” drone strikeon what it identified as a storage and maintenance hub for Russian Orion reconnaissance-strike UAVs at Kirovske airfield in Crimea. Commander Robert “Madyar” Brovdi published footage purporting to show FP-2 drones hitting hangars at the site, which he described as a “lair” for Orion drones and associated missile systems.
Flamingo, formally designated the FP-5, is a ground-launched Ukrainian cruise missile developed by defence firm Fire Point. Open sources and Ukrainian officials say it has a range of up to 3,000 kilometres and carries a warhead of around 1,150 kilogrammes, placing it among the heaviest conventional cruise-missile warheads currently in use. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has previously described Flamingo as “the most successful missile we have”, and Fire Point says the system is now in serial production.
Ukrainian officials have acknowledged earlier Flamingo strikes against targets in occupied Crimea and inside Russia, including an FSB border facility near Armyansk and attacks on Russian oil infrastructure. However, the 13 November operation is the first in which the General Staff has publicly confirmed the use of Flamingo as part of a large-scale, multi-vector strike spanning occupied territory and internationally recognised Russian territory.
The target set reflects Kyiv’s broader strategy of striking Russia’s fuel, petrochemical and logistics assets. Over recent months, Ukrainian forces and security services have claimed a series of attacks on oil refineries, tank farms and marine terminals, including facilities in Tuapse, Saratov, Orsk and other locations, with the stated aim of constraining Russia’s fuel supplies and export revenues. Repeated strikes have already been reported on the Morskoy Oil Terminal in Feodosia, described by Ukrainian sources as a key hub for supplying fuel and lubricants to Russian units in southern Ukraine.
Ukrainian military analysts also highlight the significance of hits on helicopter parking areas and storage sites in Crimea, noting that Russia’s helicopter fleet has been under strain since the interruption of Ukrainian engine supplies in 2014 and subsequent difficulties in ramping up domestic production. Losses of transport and attack helicopters, they argue, reduce Russia’s ability to move troops, conduct reconnaissance and intercept Ukrainian drones over the Black Sea and occupied territories.
For Kyiv, the public confirmation of Flamingo’s role signals that the missile is now regarded as mature enough to be acknowledged as part of Ukraine’s regular deep-strike toolkit, rather than as an experimental asset used in isolated operations. Ukrainian officials say they intend to continue “systematic fire damage” against facilities that support Russia’s military presence in Ukraine, including energy, logistics, command and air-defence infrastructure.
