“Swarm” of Ukrainian drones attacks Russian steel plant in night raid

A “swarm” of Ukrainian drones targeted the facility of Russian steelmaker Novolipetsk Steel in an attack in the early hours of Sunday morning, but no serious damage was caused, a company spokesman said.

The attack produced no results other than additional welding work, the spokesman said. Igor Artamonov, governor of the Lipetsk region in western Russia, where the steel plant is located, said in a separate statement that nine drones were shot down over the steel plant.

Kiev neither officially confirms nor denies such attacks, but states that the facilities hit support Russia’s war in Ukraine and are therefore legitimate military targets.

NLMK denies cooperation with the Ministry of Defense and says that its Russian branches are not capable of producing military-grade heavy steel and that the company does not supply the military.

The Russian Defense Ministry had previously stated that air defense systems had destroyed 36 drones that Ukraine had fired overnight at several regions in southwestern Russia, including Lipetsk.

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