“The Azovstal metallurgical plant will not be restored. A technology park and an eco-park will be located here,” Denis Pushilin, the Moscow-appointed head of the occupied Donetsk region, said last October. This decision marked the end of this gigantic factory, which since the 1930s had brought life (due to its power) but also death (due to pollution) to the residents of Mariupol.
In March 2022, at the start of the war in Ukraine, the plant, which produces coke, pig iron and metal for the world, and its blast furnaces became the center of fierce fighting, the last pocket of resistance during an 82-day siege by the Russian army. The sprawling plant, with its dozens of buildings, thousands of carriages and miles of underground networks, allowed Ukrainian soldiers, mostly from the Azov battalion, to hold the city, dug in for more than two months. A hero to a nation struggling not to drown.
Source: Le Parisien
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