Metinvest and the fund-raising platform UNITED24 have raised more than 94 million UAH having sold 100 thousand wristbands of “Azovstal. The symbol of inviolability” made of the last batch of Azovstal pre-war steel. The wristbands were designed by a jewelry house SOVA. Nova Poshta took care of the delivery and Rozetka – of the sales.…
Azovstal CEO Enver Tskitishvili resigns from office. The decision was taken by the supervisory board on November 5. CEO’s last day in the office will be November 14. Oksana Tsymbalyuk, Metinvest-MRMZ LLC financial director, has been appointed CEO from November 15. (Ukrainian metal)
SCM intends to rebuild the destroyed metal plants in Mariupol after it is freed from the Russian occupants. “Our plants in Mariupol will never, under no circumstances, work under occupation. We will restore them only under the Ukrainian banner,” the SCM PR director Natalia Yemchenko has said. In 2014-2022, the city was a showcase of…
On August 30, the citizens of Mariupol saw smoke over Azovstal. It turned out that a fire broke out at the destroyed enterprise. The reason of the fire is yet unknown. In April-May, the Russian army was throwing dozens of 0.5-ton bombs on the enterprise territory each day. The area still has not been demined.…
Businessman Rinat Akhmetov is sure that the Armed Forces of Ukraine with the support from western partners will liberate Mariupol and return the Ukrainian flag to the city. “For me Mariupol was, is and will always be Ukrainian. I believe in the Ukrainian Army and the support of our western partners. If Ukraine receives military…
Metinvest has created a work group to design new Azovstal, which will be restored in Mariupol. According to Azovstal CEO Enver Tskitishvili, the group wants, after the occupied territories are liberated, to restore the plant. “That will be another plant,” he said. The new Azovstal might not be in the same place as the destroyed…
Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works and Azovstal have addressed the General Prosecutor’s Office over the theft of metal products by Russian occupiers. The address was published on June 7. “Open sources reveal that representatives of the military companies of the Russian Federation (and people from terrorist groups controlled by them), that have occupied Mariupol,…
Azovstal was created in 1933. It has the size of 11 square km and before the break of the war it employed 10.7 thousand people. The plant provided for $2.6 billion of exports, or 3.8% of all Ukrainian exports. Since 2013, over $1 billion has been invested in Azovstal. Last year, the company produced 4.34…
