According to a Ukrainian MP, “the economic losses” for her country are “huge” with this destruction.
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The Azovstal steel and metallurgical plant in Mariupol (Ukraine) was heavily damaged by Russian bombing, Ukrainian officials said on Sunday March 20. “One of the largest metallurgical plants in Europe is destroyed. The economic losses for Ukraine are immense. The environment is devastated”said MP Lesia Vasylenko, who posted a video on her Twitter account showing thick columns of smoke rising from an industrial complex.
#Mariupol #Azovstal One of the biggest metallurgical plants in #Europe destroyed. The economic losses for #Ukraine are huge. The environment is devastated #StopRussiaNOW pic.twitter.com/4GMbkYb0es
— Lesia Vasylenko (@lesiavasylenko) March 19, 2022
Another MP, Serhiy Taruta, wrote on his Facebook page that Russian forces, besieging Mariupol, “virtually destroyed the factory”. Azovstal Managing Director Enver Tskitishvili said in a video message posted on Telegram that his company took precautionary measures at the plant from the start of the Russian invasion on February 24 to prevent any damage to the plant. ‘environment.
“The coke oven batteries no longer represent a danger to the lives of the inhabitants. We have also properly shut down the blast furnaces”he assured. “We will return to the city, rebuild and resurrect the business”, he promised, without specifying the extent of the damage. The Azovstal factory in Mariupol belongs to the Metinvest group, controlled by Ukraine’s richest man, Rinat Akhmetov.