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Russian Ballistic Strike Halts Ukraine’s Kametstal Steel Plant

Metinvest said workers were killed at its Kamianske plant and sinter-blast production halted. Two blast furnaces are offline and the loss is counted in furnace-days.

Metinvest said a Russian ballistic strike hit its Kametstal plant in Kamianske overnight, killed workers, wounded others, damaged sinter-blast production equipment and forced a full halt at the site. [E2] Al Arabiya English, paraphrasing Reuters, reported that the strike shut a Ukrainian steel plant and killed five people. [E4]

Local reporting said two blast furnaces were offline and the fire had been extinguished. [E3] The integrated mill lost operating hours in blast-furnace and sinter production, but the tonnage loss remains unmeasured. No public restart timetable, monthly output loss or damaged-equipment inventory has been published.

Metinvest and local accounts reported five workers killed, while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy separately posted that four people were dead and five injured after the strike. [E1] Member of parliament Musa Magomedov was reported as saying five ballistic missiles hit the city, five Kametstal workers were dead, and one person was still being sought. [E3]

One blast furnace coming back would narrow the loss to a short site stoppage. A longer halt across both furnaces and sinter capacity would turn the casualty-and-damage report into a measurable production outage.

Workers are dead and the tonnes are still uncounted. Until Metinvest publishes a restart date, the loss is measured in furnace-days offline. [E1]

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E1 ↩ Desk assignment lineage Assignment evidence reference for the Kametstal furnace-outage story.
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E2 ↩ Desk story file Research row and story file used for the Kametstal filing.
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E3 ↩ The Moscow Times Regional strike roundup citing Zelenskyy's casualty count and infrastructure attacks ahead of U.S. envoy visit.
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E4 ↩ Interfax-Ukraine Metinvest statement that a ballistic strike hit Kametstal, killed workers, damaged sinter-blast production, energy and transport equipment, and forced a full stop.
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E5 ↩ LIGA.net Local report on five dead, one missing, reported missile count, two blast furnaces offline, and fire extinguished.
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E6 ↩ Al Arabiya English Reuters-paraphrased report that the Russian strike shut a Ukrainian steel plant and killed five.
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