Zaporizhstal
Zaporizhstal is one of Ukraine's largest metallurgical plants, located in the city of Zaporizhzhia. The enterprise produces steel, pig iron and rolled metal and is one of the country's leading steelmakers. It was part of the Metinvest group owned by Rinat Akhmetov before Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Production at the plant has been repeatedly halted by the war, including damage from Russian strikes.
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Russia strikes Zaporizhstal with six ballistic missiles in fifth attack on plant in two months
Russian forces struck the Zaporizhstal metallurgical plant in Zaporizhzhia with six ballistic missiles on the morning of 17 October, the fifth such attack on the facility in roughly two months. The strike damaged internal energy, logistics and blast-furnace infrastructure, though no workers were killed or injured because staff reached shelters in time. Across the five attacks, eight Zaporizhstal workers have been killed and 31 metallurgists injured, and the plant has not returned to normal production since the first strike on 11 August.
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Russian strikes idle three plants that produced 90% of Ukraine's steel
Russian ballistic missile strikes in early September knocked out three major Ukrainian metallurgical plants — Zaporizhstal, Kametstal and ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih — which together had accounted for about 90% of Ukraine's steel output. The attacks killed 17 workers and halted production at facilities employing more than 15,000 people. Metinvest's Oleksandr Vodoviz said Ukraine "effectively no longer has a steel industry."
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Kushner says most of Ukraine–Russia peace deal is ready, with territorial question the last obstacle
US special envoy Jared Kushner told the Yalta European Strategy forum in Kyiv on September 12 that most of a Ukraine–Russia peace agreement has been prepared, and that the territorial question — Ukraine's refusal to withdraw to the line Russia is demanding — is the remaining obstacle. He said he hopes to announce "next steps" in the talks within the next two weeks and expressed support for returning to a trilateral format. Kyiv has previously rejected Putin's demands that Ukrainian forces withdraw from Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts.