{"id":29086,"date":"2026-08-16T13:38:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T13:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/29086\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T13:38:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T13:38:06","slug":"moscow-strikes-ukrainian-steel-plant-as-kyiv-targets-russian-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/29086\/","title":{"rendered":"Moscow strikes Ukrainian steel plant as Kyiv targets Russian economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Russia carried out a wave of air strikes on Ukraine overnight, killing two people at a steel plant, and Kyiv launched a heavy drone attack on the Moscow region that killed one person and set ablaze a warehouse \u200cused by Russia\u2019s leading e-commerce retailer.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Romania, which borders Ukraine, said an F-18 fighter on a Nato air policing mission had shot down a drone that breached its airspace during the latest attacks. It did not specify the origin of the drone, which entered from Moldova, but a spokesperson for the treaty organisation said it appeared to be Russian.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Russia struck Ukraine\u2019s largest grain export port on the River Danube near the Romanian border last week after stepping up attacks on Ukraine in recent weeks. Ukraine has also intensified attacks on Russian targets including oil refineries, and both sides have struck commercial vessels in the \u2060Black Sea.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In the latest attacks since Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Russian forces struck Ukraine\u2019s biggest steel plant overnight in the industrial city of Kryvyi \u200cRih, President Volodymyr Zelensky\u2019s hometown.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">At least two people were killed and 14 injured, Ukrainian officials said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Firefighters try to put out a fire at a city book market following a Russian missile attack in Kyiv on Sunday. Photo: AP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/bbf256b0-7eae-4cf0-af1c-319bd9375c88_d5301715.jpg\" title=\"Firefighters try to put out a fire at a city book market following a Russian missile attack in Kyiv on Sunday. Photo: AP\"\/>Firefighters try to put out a fire at a city book market following a Russian missile attack in Kyiv on Sunday. Photo: AP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cAs a result of the attack, key production facilities in the power generation and blast furnace sectors have been damaged, and the plant\u2019s production processes have \u200cbeen partially halted,\u201d steel manufacturer ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih said on social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russia carried out a wave of air strikes on Ukraine overnight, killing two people at a steel plant,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6772,10405,3539,1138,8406,158,55,38,66,57,6488,25,26,214,412],"class_list":["post-29086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-andrei-vorobyov","tag-arcelormittal-kryvyi-rih","tag-belgorod","tag-black-sea","tag-kryvyi-rih","tag-kyiv","tag-moldova","tag-moscow","tag-nato","tag-romania","tag-rostov","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-vitali-klitschko","tag-volodymyr-zelenskiy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}