Metinvest CEO: EU steel quota cut threatens recovery after Russian attacks
Russian attacks have halted production at key Ukrainian steel plants, while the EU’s decision to cut quotas for Ukrainian steel by more than 50% calls the industry’s recovery into question, Metinvest Group CEO Yuriy Ryzhenkov said in an interview with Jacopo Dettoni, editor-in-chief of fDi Intelligence, part of the Financial Times media group.
At least 15 individuals lost their lives in recent strikes across central and eastern Ukraine, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky, who called the Russian attacks one of their "most vile" actions. One of the residential buildings in Pryluky, situated in the Chernihiv region, was completely destroyed, potentially serving as a "birthday gift" for Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose birthday falls on Wednesday.
The strikes were not confined to Ukraine alone; they extended to Kyiv, Dnipro, Kremenchuk, Zaporizhzhia, and Oleksandriya. In the past 24 hours, Ukraine retaliated by targeting targets in Russia's Perm, Samara, and Astrakhan regions, with additional strikes in the Black Sea. Zelensky claimed that Russia sought to inflict painful and demonstrative damage, stating that they launched 70 missiles in total.
At least five people were killed and 26 injured, including five children, in the strike on a five-story apartment building in Pryluky. Emergency workers are still searching for trapped individuals in the rubble. Chernihiv Oblast police later reported the death toll had increased to nine after discovering three more children, with ongoing efforts to rescue others.
Two people also perished and eight were injured when Russian missile attacks damaged five apartment buildings in Dnipro and four high-rise buildings in Kremenchuk. Two individuals were killed and two others were injured in Kyiv, while two people died in Oleksandriya. Ukraine's national police shared images of what they believe to be an unexploded Russian Iskander missile in a district of Kyiv, and a video demonstrates people excavating the remains of a collapsed residential building in Pryluky.
Another verified video captures the damage to cars and debris in Kremenchuk. Ukraine has intensified its call for allies to provide air defense support packages, as their military managed to shoot down some of the missiles launched by Russia overnight. The primary targets of the attack were Ukraine's energy infrastructure, which Moscow had vowed to intensify strikes on following Ukraine's strikes on Moscow's energy facilities.
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