Metinvest is doing its outmost to supply Mariupol with humanitarian aid.
“For the past six days we have been trying to get to the city. We have buses ready, and drivers, and trucks with food and supplies. We were told there was a green corridor, so we tried to get to the city. Unfortunately, these days we were stopped by the military and Russia’s shelling,” the group CEO Yuri Ryzhenkov has said.
While it’s impossible to provide help to the city, the company is sharing food and water from its reserves with its employees and locals blocked in Mariupol by Russian armies.
“We were preparing the city even before it was cut from the supply lines. Our bomb shelters are full of food and water, which are now distributed among the Mariupol citizens. But, unfortunately, they are growing thin,” he added.
According to him, around 40 thousand people are working at the company plants in Mariupol.
“Unfortunately, they are cut from the rest of the world,” he said.
Metinvest also purchases and provides delivery of humanitarian aid to Ukraine from Europe.
“We buy food stuffs not only in Ukraine, but also in the EU. We have created a logistics center in Poland and are sending all this food to Ukraine. In Zaporozhye we create special food kits that will be sent to Mariupol and other cities,” Ryzhenkov informed. (Ukrainian metal)