‘As of Today, Ukraine Doesn’t Have a Steel Industry Anymore’: Mining CEO Reveals How Russian Strikes Are Destroying Kiev’s Economy

 

Destroyed steel plant in Zaporozhie, Ukraine – Screengrab Social Media/Telegram

While Ukraine is ‘winning’ in the MSM headlines, its economy is being depleted by overwhelming drone and missile strikes.

If you look around the MSM today, all you’ll see is the image of oil refineries on fire in the Moscow region, after the largest drone attack on the Russian capital since the beginning of the war.

While there’s no denying that the attack on the last day of Russian elections is quite the ‘PR victory’ for Kiev regime leader Volodymyr Zelensky, it is nothing compared to the absolute havoc wreaked by the relentless Moscow strikes on Ukrainian economic targets. 

We feel tempted to say that Russia’s new jet drones struck Kiev every day in September, but it is not entirely the case.

Drone attacks on Kiev were recorded on September 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5; on September 8, 9, 10 and 11; on September 15, 17, 18, 19 and today, 20.

It’s important to stress that these attacks often came in multiple waves per day, targeting military, economic and infrastructure targets.

Today, as the Globalists gloat with the disruption of Russian elections, Kiev residents wake up to a city shrouded by smoke from the relentless strikes. 

But the air strikes are hitting all over the country, not just the capital, and are slowly degrading Kiev economic capabilities.

Today, the Financial Times reported on the magnitude of this destruction:

“Missiles and new jet-powered drones hit shopping malls, warehouses and distribution centers in late August and early September, disrupting companies including major Ukrainian retailers, publishing houses, pharmaceutical groups and Nova Poshta, the country’s biggest private postal carrier.”

Supermarket shortages in Kiev have also begun to appear, though sporadic at this point.

“Earlier this month, ballistic missile strikes disabled Ukraine’s three major remaining steel plants in the industrial heartlands of the Zaporizhzhia and Dnipropetrovsk regions, killing 17 workers and threatening an industry that helped drive the country’s growth for decades after independence. Two ballistic missiles struck the Zaporizhzhia site again on Thursday, the fourth attack against the steel plant in less than a month.

‘As of today, [Ukraine] doesn’t have a steel industry anymore’, Oleksandr Vodoviz, head of the chief executive’s office at Metinvest, a steel and mining company that owns two of the three plants targeted in the recent attacks, told the FT. ‘They knew everything about the plant, they knew exactly where to hit’, Vodoviz said. Ballistic missiles targeted the blast furnaces at the three plants, including two owned by Metinvest and an ArcelorMittal factory in Zelenskyy’s native city of Kryvyi Rih.

Metinvest and ArcelorMittal said the factories — which together made up 90 per cent of the country’s steel output — were now idle. ‘Right now we do not understand how long it will take to make the repairs, days, weeks, months or years’, said Vodoviz. He said the shutdown of the plants, which together have more than 15,000 workers, could have major knock-on effects ‘and a huge impact on taxes’.”