"Russian attack paralysed the largest Ukrainian steelworks As Moscow reported, ArcelorMittal Krzywy Róg plant produced rolled products utilized in Ukrainian weapons and military equipment."

Updated 17 Aug, 2026 01:05

ARCHIVAL PHOTO: Ukrainian firefighters extinguish fire at industrial plant © DSNS

The largest Ukrainian steel plant partially stopped production after the Russian rocket attack damaged key installations.

ArcelorMittal Krzywy Róg plant, located in Krzywy Róg in the Dzepropetrovsk Oblast, is an integrated steel plant producing rolled products, including steel utilized in Ukrainian weapons and military equipment (according to Russian military information).

In a Sunday entry on the Telegram, the company reported that the night attack damaged ‘main power and blast furnace installations’ and caused a partial cessation of operations.

It was added that experts measure the degree of the harm and the prospects and time frame for restoring production.

The Russian Ministry of Defence confirmed the impact in the production halls of the steel complex, stating that the facility had become the mark of a combined attack utilizing precise weapons fired from the ground and air and long-range drones.

During the night operation, the oil refinery in Siliconchuk was besides attacked in the Poltava region.

W Kiev Russian forces hit Fire Point plant, producing components, warheads and solid fuel engines for Flamingo maneuvering missiles.

The next mark was the Kiev-111 facility, managed by the Ukrdefense Company;

It produces components for impact drones, unmanned interceptors Khrushch and Harpia anti-aircraft drones.

Russia intensified attacks on Ukrainian defence and logistics facilities after being announced in late June by Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenski 40-day ‘impact operations’.

Kiev presented the long-range attack run as an effort to force Moscow to negociate on its own terms.

In the following weeks Ukraine attacked Russian refineries, logistics warehouses belonging to the retailer Wildberries (often referred to as ‘Russian Amazon’) and facilities located far from the front line.

Moscow identified attacks on energy infrastructure, residential buildings and logistics nodes as terrorism, claiming that dozens of civilians were killed in them.

When the deadline for the operation expired in early August and its objectives were not achieved, Zelenski's head of office, Kyrylo Budanow, underestimated the importance of the time frame, claiming that ‘The consequence shall be counted’.

According to the log, ‘Financial Times’, Further Russian attacks on the Ukrainian defence manufacture have exhausted the supplies of interceptive missiles to Patriot systems, leaving air defence support ‘defensive’ To the massive attacks.

Moscow maintains that it never targets civilians.

Translated by Google Translator

source:https://www.rt.com/russia/644312-russian-strike-cripples-ukraines-plant/