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Dying Donbass
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Not sure how your media informs you, so just to let you know:
Couple of days ago all steel mills and mines within the separatists territories in Eastern Ukraine were nationalized and all roads connecting Donbass with rest of Western Ukraine were sealed completely. Result?
Alchevsk Iron&Steel works, Donetsk Metalurgical plant and Yenakiieve Iron&Steel works ceased production completely (=thousands of workers lost their jobs), one of the largest coke plants in Europe Adveevka and Makeevka are in stand-by mode now. DMKD integrated plant is about to shutdown too due to lack of coke from the East.
This is real disaster for whole Ukraine and will most likely influence European market too.
Meanwhile new wave of military operations escalated near Mariupol, strategic industrial town by the Azov see.
(on the picture - the open-hearth steel shop in Donetsk, 2012)
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