Swedish Ball Bearing Factory Hit in Russian Strike, Three Employees Killed
<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="/ueditor/php/upload/image/20230816/1692201366106748.png" title="1692201366106748.png" alt="3.png"/></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The Swedish company SKF confirmed three of its employees died in the attack which Russia said damaged ¡°Ukraine's military-industrial complex.¡±</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">An overnight Russian missile strike on the western Ukrainian city of Lutsk hit a Swedish ball bearing factory, the facility¡¯s owners have confirmed.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">In a statement released on Tuesday afternoon, Sweden¡¯s SKF company said three of its employees died in the attack.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">¡°We can confirm that there was an attack last night on the city of Lutsk in Ukraine, where we have a factory that was hit in the attack. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">¡°We are very sad to also be able to confirm that three of our employees died in this attack,¡± Carl Bjernstam, an SKF spokesman, told AFP in a statement.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The statement came around the same time Russia¡¯s defense ministry said it had struck military-purpose industrial facilities in several sites across Ukraine overnight.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">¡°Ukraine's military-industrial complex suffered significant damage,¡± the ministry said in a statement, adding that it had carried out long-range precision strikes on ¡°key¡± facilities.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Ball bearings ¨C small metal spheres usually made of high carbon chromium steel ¨C are used in the manufacture of practically anything with moving parts.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">In the military sphere, this makes them crucial for almost all equipment from tanks, to planes to guidance systems.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The overnight strikes also damaged a sports complex in Dnipro, central Ukraine, and a children's playground in Lviv, western Ukraine. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The Ukrainian air force said it destroyed 16 out of the 28 cruise missiles launched by Russia overnight.</span></p><p><br/></p>
16 Aug,2023