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Lakshmi Mittal’s ArcelorMittal steel plant in Ukraine’s Kryvyi Rih was hit by a Russian missile strike, killing two people, injuring 14 workers and forcing a partial production halt. The attack came after Ukraine launched a major drone assault on Russia. Both sides have intensified long-range strikes targeting military, industrial and energy facilities amid the ongoing war.

Indian-origin billionaire Lakshmi Mittal’s ArcelorMittal mining and metallurgical complex in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine’s largest integrated steel unit, came under a Russian missile attack. The strike, which followed a Ukrainian drone barrage on Russia, killed two people, injured 14 workers and forced a partial halt to production after damaging core energy and blast-furnace operations.

Ukraine earlier launched hundreds of drones across Russia, killing at least six people in one of Kyiv’s largest aerial attacks of the war. Moscow regional Governor Andrey Vorobyov described the assault as “one of the most massive drone attacks in recent memory”. Russia’s Defence Ministry said it had intercepted 822 drones across the country overnight.

An 83-year-old man was killed after a Ukrainian drone hit a private home in the Moscow region, Vorobyov said. He added that another Ukrainian attack sparked a blaze at a Wildberries warehouse, belonging to Russia’s largest online retailer and a company controlled by the country’s richest woman, billionaire Tatyana Kim, in the town of Podolsk.

Around 600 drones were detected heading towards the Russian capital, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said, with a third of them destroyed over the Moscow region.