Russia Hits Ukraine Steel Plant, Kyiv Kills 1 Near Moscow in 822-Drone Barrage
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Updated · CNBC · Aug 16
Russia Hits Ukraine Steel Plant, Kyiv Kills 1 Near Moscow in 822-Drone Barrage
3 articles · Updated · CNBC · Aug 16
Summary
Two people were killed and 14 injured after Russian overnight strikes hit ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine's biggest steel plant, damaging blast-furnace and power-generation facilities and partially halting production.
Russia also struck Kyiv, injuring three and sparking fires in two districts, while drone attacks across the surrounding region wounded three more, including a child.
One 83-year-old man was killed in one of the largest Ukrainian drone attacks on the Moscow region since the war began, and a Wildberries warehouse south of Moscow was set ablaze; another person died in a bus strike near Belgorod.
Russia said it downed 822 Ukrainian drones nationwide, while Ukraine said it hit a missile-fuel production facility in Russia's Rostov region as it keeps targeting economic and military infrastructure.
Romania said a Spanish NATO F-18 shot down a drone over its territory during the attacks—the fourth such airspace breach this year—after recent Russian strikes near the Danube border.
Are Russia's massive drone swarms a calculated escalation or a desperate response to Ukraine's deep strikes on Russian soil?
With a NATO fighter jet downing a Russian drone in Romanian airspace, are we witnessing the quiet start of direct allied intervention?
After strikes crippled Ukraine's largest steel plant, can the nation's industrial war machine survive this devastating blow to its core infrastructure?