TREE NEWS update: Russia’s defence ministry said on September 22 that its forces carried out a large-scale overnight strike on Ukraine using high-precision land-, sea- and air-launched weapons and drones. It said the targets hit included metallurgy, chemicals, fuel and energy facilities and the defence industry, plus ports and vessels serving the Ukrainian military, in Kyiv city and Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava and Odesa regions.
Russia says it struck Ukrainian metals, chemicals and energy targets overnight
The stated targeting of metallurgy and chemicals alongside fuel and energy marks a shift toward Ukraine's industrial base rather than only its grid, with potential knock-on effects for output of metals and chemical inputs that feed export supply chains. Ports and vessels in Odesa are also named, so shipping and export logistics sit within the strike set. Whether such industrial and port targeting is sustained, and how quickly capacity is restored, is the open question for anyone tracking Ukrainian commodity supply.
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