“For Azovstal ready to ask Russia for billions of dollars”

At the Azovstal Steel Mill in Mariupol “we are documenting the losses and damages, a special legal team works on it nonstop. But yes, we can use an international court to ask the Russian Federation for damages from the losses” and “it will be a rather heavy damage claim. “even tens of billions of dollars. In addition, the length of the occupation counts: “The longer it continues, the higher the bill”. This is what Yuriy Ryzhenkov, managing director of the Metinvest group that controls the steel plant, told Corriere della Sera. Then, he warns, “we will never work under Russian occupation. Our properties and subsidiaries remain in Mariupol and are at risk of destruction or takeover by the Russians. But if the occupiers really illegally seize our assets, we we will defend by all legal means. We ask Europeans and other customers not to buy products from the Mariupol plants until we, the sole owners, have regained control. “