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Ukraine Update October 28
2026 — Wait, Which War Are We Talking About? — Useful, Useless, and Dangerous Idiots
So Goes the Invasion of Ukraine
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Ukrainian strikes on the Novolipetsk Metallurgical Plant in Lipetsk last night. It produces all manner of steel products, including pig iron, slabs, hot-rolled steel, cold-rolled steel, galvanized, and electrical steel for transformers, electrical motors, etc. Oligarch Vladimir Lisin, one of Russia’s wealthiest men, owns it. Novolipetsk Metallurgical Plant is one of Russia’s most important steelmaking facilities and a major component of the country’s industrial economy.
In the suburbs of Novomoskovsk, in the Tula region, the NAK Azot (lit.: Novomoskovsk Azot Chemical Plant) was also attacked. It’s part of the EuroChem Group, a massive fertilizer company, and Russian oligarch Andrey Melnichenko owns it the plant itself, along with shares in the EuroChem group. While EuroChem is a massive international conglomerate, NAK Azot is a mostly Russian operation. It makes ammonia, ammonium nitrate, urea, methanol, and porous ammonium nitrate, which is used in explosives. NAK Azot claims to be Russia’s largest producer of urea, which will never not make me giggle, because it is second to the hordes of…
