Employees secure and package rolls of sheet steel at the Zaporizhstal PJSC rolled steel plant in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on Thursday, June 30, 2022. Russian artillery is just out of range of the plant which belongs to Metinvest Holding LLC, owner of Azovstal, the massive steel plant in Mariupol that was destroyed by artillery and bunker buster bombs as Russian forces dislodged the city's last defenders. Photographer: Julia Kravchenko/Bloomberg via Getty Images
KYIV (Reuters) – Believes Over 234,000 Tonnes Of Steel Stolen By Russian Forces
First it was the Grain and now its Steel. This is a great article and heads up not to buy stolen steel from Russia.
Here is a quote from Ukraines Metinvest:
“Metinvest Group’s enterprises, therefore, ask all potential buyers to reject any offers related to the stolen products, as any purchase thereof would not be considered as having been made in good faith.”
Here is Russia’s response to the allegations:
Moscow says it is engaged in a “special military operation” to demilitarise Ukraine and rid it of dangerous nationalists. Ukraine and its allies dismiss this as a baseless pretext to launch an unprovoked war of aggression.
(Reporting by Natalia Zinets, editing by David Ljunggren, Timothy Heritage and Barbara Lewis)
