After the end of the war, the Azovstal plant in Mariupol, destroyed by the Russian invaders, will definitely be rebuilt.
On the evening of March 19, Enver Tskitishvili, the general director of the plant, announced this . He also drew an important historical parallel: the last time Azovstal suspended its work in 1941, when the Nazis came to Mariupol.
— Azovstal was already stopped, it was in 1941. In 1943, when the Soviet troops sacked Mariupol, the construction of the plant began. We built new furnaces, new batteries, we made the plant the best both in Ukraine and in Europe, — noted Enver Tskitishvili.
According to the general director of Azovstal, to say that the Russian invaders “destroyed” plant is not worth it. He promised that Azovstal would certainly continue to glorify Ukraine with its production, as it was before the war.
– Those two shells that hit Azovstal… One cannot say that the Azovstal plant has been stopped forever. We will return to the city and rebuild this plant, we will revive it and it will work, it will bring glory to Ukraine, as it always did, — summed up Enver Tskitishvili.
The fact that Russia had bombed Azovstal in Mariupol became known on the evening of March 18.
The consequences of the air strikes at the plant were published on his page in social networks by the deputy mayor of the city Sergey Orlov.
The next day, March 19, Vadim Denisenko, adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs, said that Ukraine had actually lost Azovstal. He added that he considers this “one of the main instructions of Putin” as part of the destruction of Mariupol.
The Azovstal plant is considered one of the largest metallurgical plants in Europe. steel annually.
