On October 1, 2023, as a result of a strike on the Smolensk aviation plant, the production of Kh-59 missiles of various modifications were disrupted.

According to confirmed data, three out of four drones hit the target, causing significant damage to the production facilities of the military enterprise of the aggressor state.

The Kh-59 air-to-surface missile (in the Kh-59MK2 modification) with a range of up to 280 km is one of the missiles that the russian aerospace forces most often used against military and civilian targets in Ukraine.

The Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions suffer the most from the use of such weapons.