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Russian Strike on Zaporozhstal Hits Ukraine’s War Economy – Analyst

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Russian forces’ recent strike on the Zaporozhstal steel mill means that our troops are penetrating even deeper into the enemy's rear, Alexander Mikhailov, head of the Bureau of Military-Political Analysis, told Sputnik.
“One can fight the Ukrainian military directly on the battlefield and at the same time deprive it of access to armor. This strike was a blow to the armor of the Ukrainian army as a whole,” Mikhailov pointed out.

He noted that there’s no change in tactics here because Russian troops simply start carrying out “more painful and targeted strikes on facilities that sustain Ukraine’s war economy and directly integrated into its defense-industrial complex.”

Zaporozhstal is part of the Metinvest international company so its beneficiaries in Europe and the US could cry foul, which means that the Russian strike on the plant also “dealt a political blow to Western sponsors of the Zelensky regime,” the analyst stressed.
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