On the night of August 27, 2026, Russian forces once again launched a missile strike on the Zaporizhstal metallurgical plant in Zaporizhzhia. This was reported on Facebook by Musa Magomedov, head of the Verkhovna Rada subcommittee on industrial policy policy, citing data that a number of Ukrainian media outlets verified over the course of the day. According to him, this is not the first strike on the enterprise this month, and he described the consequences of the new attack as "extremely serious."

A repeated strike on the same location

As the MP clarified, during the night attack five missiles landed on the same section of the territory where people were killed during the previous shelling. It was after that attack that the plant was forced to halt operations, and, according to Magomedov, the new series of hits prevented production from resuming. He stated outright that the Russians are "literally destroying Ukrainian metallurgy," and emphasized that the question of when Zaporizhstal will be able to restart its capacity remains open for now.

Metallurgy on the verge of a shutdown

At present, the operations of the Zaporizhstal plant are fully halted, while other production sites in the industry are running at reduced capacity. According to an assessment cited in the headline by TSN, without urgent state decisions, Ukraine risks losing a significant portion of its metallurgy by spring. Thus, the night strike of August 27 was not an isolated incident but part of systematic pressure on the mining and metallurgical complex, on which the country's raw material and industrial base depends.

The position of parliament and the Cabinet

Magomedov reported that he once again flagged the critical situation in the mining and metallurgical complex at a committee meeting attended by the full Cabinet of Ministers. According to him, the continuation of the discussion is scheduled for Friday — at a meeting with the Prime Minister. This indicates that the consequences of the strikes on Zaporizhstal have gone beyond the industrial agenda and have become a matter for discussion at the government level, where support measures for the industry are expected to be developed.

Context: the August 11 strike

Recall that on August 11, Russia carried out a ballistic strike on industrial facilities in Zaporizhzhia. Seven workers of the Zaporizhstal plant were killed, and another 21 were injured. According to the MP, it was this shelling that caused the initial shutdown of the enterprise, and the night attack of August 27 repeated the strike on the same section, worsening the damage and making the restoration of production even less predictable.

Contradictory data

It should be noted that the exact number of shells (five missiles) and the detail of hitting "the same place" are cited in the statement of a single MP and were not independently confirmed by military authorities in the provided sources. Moreover, the sources' wording differs in characterizing the weaponry: the August 11 strike is described as "ballistic," while the night attack of the 27th is simply called a "missile" strike. These nuances do not change the main fact — the repeated strike on Zaporizhstal and the full halt of the plant — but the exact figures and the type of weaponry, at the time of publication, remain based primarily on the parliamentary statement and the verified media reports.