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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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The Kyiv Independent staff documented what it feels like to live and sleep in Kyiv, Ukraine, as Russia intensifies its drone and missile attacks on the city. Filmed over several weeks in June and July, our journalists take shelter in bathrooms, basements, and parking garages as explosions ring out overhead.

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