Drone Strikes Severstal Metallurgical Plant in Vologda Oblast

7 March, 2024 An explosion at the plant belonging to steelmaker Severstal. Source: freeze frame from the video. A drone attacked a large metallurgical plant belonging to steelmaker Severstal in the Russian city of Cherepovets, Vologda oblast.

The company's press service reported on this. The drone attacked the target at about 5:40 a.m. and hit blast furnace No.

4. Initially, the drone's involvement in the explosion was denied by the Russians, with the plant's management citing a technical incident and the shutdown of one of the units for scheduled repairs.

Later, the acting governor of the Vologda oblast, Georgy Filimonov, confirmed that the explosion was caused by a drone.