The Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Federation announced the cessation of steel production in Ukraine

Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov said that as a result of Russian attacks on Ukrainian metallurgical plants, steel production in Ukraine was stopped. "In order to undermine the military-economic potential of Ukraine, key enterprises of the metal industry, whose products are used for military production, and are also exported to pay for the supply of weapons and ammunition," Gerasimov reported to Russian President Vladimir Putin at the auxiliary command post of the joint forces group. "Today it can be stated that steel production in Ukraine has been stopped.