Metinvest Group Rinat Akhmetov reported a complete loss of control over the operation of all its assets in the occupied areas of Donetsk and Lugansk regions.
"Unidentified people came to the enterprises of the Metinvest Group in an uncontrolled territory who demanded to re-register the enterprises in the jurisdiction of unrecognized republics, and also started inventorying and inventory of property," the group said..
The unknowns came from the PrJSC Enakievo Metallurgical Plant, PJSC Makeyevsky Metallurgical Plant, PJSC Enakievskiy Koksokhimprom, PJSC Khartsyzsk Tube Works, PJSC Komsomolskoye Rudoupravleniye, PJSC Krasnodonugol, PJSC Donetskkoks and Metallen LLC,.
"In case of disobedience, they threatened employees of enterprises with physical violence. As the group "Metinvest" can not expose employees to the risk and violate the legislation of Ukraine, the company considers it impossible to continue any economic activity in these enterprises, "the statement of the group.