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One of Europe's biggest steel works damaged in
Ukraine's Mariupol
Azovstal is part of the Metinvest group, which is controlled by Ukraine’s richest man,
Rinat Akhmetov
One of Europe’s biggest iron and steel works, Azovstal, has been
badly damaged as Russian forces lay siege to the Ukrainian port
city of Mariupol, officials said Sunday. “One of the biggest
metallurgic plants in #Europe destroyed. The economic losses for
#Ukraine are huge. The environment is devastated,” tweeted
Ukrainian lawmaker Lesia Vasylenko. Vasylenko posted a video of
explosions on an industrial site, with thick columns of grey and
black smoke rising from the buildings. One of her colleagues,
wrote on Facebook that Russian forces “had practically destroyed
the factory”.
“We will return to the city, rebuild the enterprise and revive it,”
Azovstal’s director general Enver Tskitishvili wrote on messaging
app Telegram, without specifying the extent of the damage. He
said that when the invasion began on February 24, the factory had
taken measures to reduce the environmental damage in the event
of being hit. Azovstal is part of the Metinvest group, which is
controlled by Ukraine’s richest man, Rinat Akhmetov.