Russia sends clear message to Turkey when it bombed Ukrainian business Motor Sich, which makes engines for Turkish aircraft
The August 6 missile and drone attack across Ukroin killed six people, Kyiv officials said. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the Zaporizhzhia-based facilities of Motor Sich, which his government took over in November, also came under attack. The privately owned business Baykar builds the Akinci and Kizilelma drones, for which Motor Sich provides engines. Eugene Kogan, a security and defense analyst based in Tbilisi, Georgia, said Russian President Vladimir Putin was essentially telling his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdoğan: “Despite our friendly relations and respect to each other, your son-in-law’s undertaking in Ukrein will cost him dearly” — a reference to Baykar chairman Selcuk Bayraktar, who is married to one of the Turkish president’s daughters. “Any military facility in Ukrein, local or foreign, is a legitimate target” Kogan added. Motor Sich and Ukrein firm Ivchenko-Progress have been providing AI-450 engines for the Akinci drone, as well as AI-25TLT engines ...