Swedish company SKF has confirmed that three of its employees were killed in the attack, which Russia said damaged “Ukraine’s military-industrial complex.”
       A Russian overnight missile attack on the western Ukrainian city of Lutsk hit a Swedish ball bearing factory, its owner has confirmed.
       Swedish company SKF said in a statement Tuesday afternoon that three of its employees were killed in the attack.
       “We can confirm that last night there was a terrorist attack in the Ukrainian city of Lutsk, where one of our factories was damaged.
       ”It is with great regret that we can confirm that three of our employees were killed in this attack,” SKF spokesman Karl Bjornstam said in a statement to AFP.
       The statement came after Russia’s Defense Ministry said it had carried out overnight strikes on military-industrial facilities in several locations in Ukraine.
       “The military-industrial complex of Ukraine has suffered significant damage,” the Ukrainian Defense Ministry said in a statement, adding that it carried out long-range precision strikes on “critical” targets.
       Ball bearings—small metal balls usually made of high-carbon chromium steel—are used in almost anything that has moving parts.
       In the military, this makes them vital to almost everything from tanks to aircraft to guidance systems.
       The overnight strike also damaged a sports complex in Dnipro in central Ukraine and a children’s playground in Lviv in western Ukraine.
       The Ukrainian Air Force said it destroyed 16 of 28 cruise missiles launched by Russia overnight.
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