A drone attack overnight set off a large fire at the Azot chemical plant in Novomoskovsk, Tula region, Russia, and open-source analysis of local images and video suggests the blaze likely started in the plant's AM-70 ammonia unit. Governor Dmitry Milyaev confirmed the drone attack and damage to infrastructure in the local industrial zone. Azot, owned by EuroChem and one of Russia's largest nitrogen fertilizer producers, makes ammonia, ammonium nitrate, urea and methanol, and supplies nitric acid to the Sverdlov plant in Dzerzhinsk, which produces explosives. The plant had also been targeted in June. The same night, a fire broke out at a steel plant in Lipetsk after a Ukrainian attack, and Russian forces responded with an Iskander ballistic missile, 88 drones and several cruise missiles aimed at targets in Ukraine.
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