The position taken by the owner of the largest industrial enterprise in Ukraine in the war with Russia has already become a byword. All managers with, if not conscience, then at least the remnants of sanity, quit ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih. As a result, an absolutely homogeneous bunch of garbage turned out to be at the helm of the metallurgical plant, which, as long as they are paid at least something, you can’t get through. For they have nowhere else to go, writes Ukrrudprom.
Naturally, these unfortunate specialists could not fail to distinguish themselves today, when Russia launched a targeted missile attack on the steel plant. In the morning, AMKR Facebook posted a message with the following content:
ArcelorMittal Kryviy Rih reports that on the night of December 5, a missile attack was carried out on the territory of the enterprise.
According to preliminary information, there are casualties.
An emergency plan was activated, the fire department, the labor protection department and the medical service were called to the scene.
Rescuers are still working at the site of the impact. All the necessary assistance is being provided to the victims.
At this early stage, all our efforts are focused on bringing the situation under control.
We will inform you when new information becomes available.
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A request to employees not to shoot the scene of the incident and not to distribute photos.“
To appreciate this post, you need to understand that by this time the missile attack on the enterprise had already been commented by both the Office of the President and the head of the local military administration.
From the information available at that time, it was obvious that as a result of the strike on the AMKR, there were not just “injured”, but at least one killed plus three wounded. The blow was inflicted by Russia, and not by some unknown forces (as can be determined from the company's Facebook post). And finally, it was accompanied by a neutral, absolutely meaningless picture with the stela of the enterprise, despite the fact that the OP published several pictures of the destruction due to the Russian strike at once.
But Trade with Russia is going according to plan
In fairness, Rinat Akhmetov’s Metinvest behaved in a similar way in 2016. The future People’s Deputy Musa Magomedov liked to write something vague about the next arrival at the Avdeevsky Coke and Chemical Plant entrusted to his care. However, over time, even the “Donetsk” came to understand that the streamlined shape is just another form of conceptual crap in war conditions. But as we can see, the AMKR, in the tenth month of a full-scale war, is at the very stage of evolution when both ours and yours.
And the reasons for such “restrained” behavior are obvious. Despite loud statements in May about the termination of doing business with the aggressor country, by July, Kazakhstan's ArcelorMittal Temirtau had resumed sales of metal products to Russia. And the Ukrainian metallurgical plant ArcelorMittal not only didn’t hiccup about this, but didn’t even fart. All the bliss of the situation was emphasized by the departure of the AMKR PR person, Yarina Klyuchkovskaya, who at some point realized that something unhealthy was happening here. However, this wave of protests among the management of the steel plant in front-line Krivoy Rog was limited.
To replace the impressionable Klyuchkovskaya, they quickly found a representative of an unconventional PR orientation, Volodymyr Gaydash, who quietly worked in Ukraine for the Russian Evraz after 2014. That is, he is not used to it. Moreover, with such a track record, after Abramovich, he worked without problems in the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office.
The rest of the AMKR gop-company is also a match for him. What is the well-known lobbyist of the plant, Vladimir Tkachenko, well-known to journalists, who speaks exclusively of Ukrainian motherhood, is an awesome patriot at heart, besides, he comes from Trostyanets, destroyed by the Russian army, and even personally donates to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but the difficult share that forces him to support numerous relatives literally strangles his principled position on the main issues of life and demands to be hunched over the owners who cooperate with the Muscovites. In general, the archetypal image of a rural policeman who helps partisans at night.
By the way, about donations to the Ukrainian army. The media have repeatedly pointed out that the country's largest industrial enterprise does not give a penny to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Yes, it does not prevent their employees or trade unions from collecting such assistance, but no more. Obviously, out of the same fear of losing the Russian market, because trade with Russia is very important for the plant.
As the last month has shown, the state has an effective mechanism for instilling patriotism among the management and owners of ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih. Obviously, it is only a matter of time before Longobardo and his “golden company” finally experience the full power of love from the Office of the President.
By the way, the post about the missile attack on the AMKR was literally hanging on the company's Facebook page couple of hours. Then he was removed. Apparently, in order not to “shock” Russian buyers. In general, there are dead and wounded at ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih, but there is no information about it.
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