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Akhmetov: Mariupol's metal factories won't work under Russian occupation.

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Ukraine's richest oligarch Rinat Akhmetov told the Wall Street Journal on March 23 that his Azovstal and Ilyich metallurgical plants located in besieged Mariupol would not operate under Russian occupation. Together they employ 40,000 people, and are temporarily closed now.

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