What happened

Russian forces struck the Zaporizhstal steel plant in Zaporizhzhia with two ballistic missiles on 17 September, the fourth strike on the plant in just over a month, according to the Kyiv Independent and plant operator Metinvest. Metinvest said the strike caused significant damage to engineering equipment and the plant's internal railway network, and one worker was hospitalized. The plant has now been hit with 17 ballistic missiles since August, with the most recent prior strike on 12 September injuring four employees. As with the ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih steel plant (17 August), this record treats a metallurgical facility as energy-infrastructure-relevant because reporting frames the damage around the plant's power and production equipment, including its rail-served logistics, rather than a purely industrial target; the approximate coordinates used here are the wider Zaporizhzhia city reference used elsewhere on the site, since no precise plant-perimeter coordinates were published.

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