Some specifics of the Russian air campaign against Ukraine were highlighted yesterday by former Ukrainian parliamentarian Oleg Tsaryov. He singled out, from a Financial Times report, the targeting of Ukraine’s steel industry, and posted here (in a machine translation):

“Ukrainian steel industry halted after Russian missile strikes... According to Rinat Akhmetov, a representative of Ukraine’s largest steel producer, Metinvest, 90% of production capacity has been stopped. In recent weeks, the Russian Armed Forces have attacked the Zaporizhstal plants, as a result of which they stopped working. The ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih and Kamet Stal plants in the Dnipropetrovsk region also came under rocket fire. The blows were inflicted with exceptional accuracy on the blast furnaces of metallurgical plants. The backbone of the Ukrainian economy is actually broken; historically, the main source of Ukraine’s foreign exchange earnings—metallurgy—has been lost.