(12 Mar 2025)
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Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine – 13 February 2025
1. Various of steel worker preparing to release molten steel from furnace, sparks
2. Close of molten steel
3. Establishing shot of Oleksandr Myronenko
4. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Oleksandr Myronenko, Chief Operating Officer COO of Metinvest Group:
“If it is imposed and 25% tariffs are included on these products, we will be forced to stop these deliveries and refocus this enterprise to the market of Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, from traditional markets. But this will cause a decrease in production volumes.”
5. Wide shot of steel workers preparing to release molten steel from furnace
6. Various of a special machine drilling a hole in the furnace wall to release molten steel
7. Medium shot of steel worker
8. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Oleksandr Myronenko, Chief Operating Officer COO of Metinvest Group:
“Our main markets, our main export market it is Europe now. That is, we have almost 80% of our exports going to European countries. And so it is very important for us that we do not have any trade restrictions that can be caused by these same tariffs from the United States side on the European market. This can affect us very painfully if the Europeans start imposing tariffs on Ukrainian products on the basis of these duties, and then this will be a very significant problem for us. Because the main market is Europe, this is Europe, and we have to maintain our position there in the European market. And that’s the main focus for us now.”
9. Pan shot of steel plant room
10. Close of molten steel
11. Mid of steel plant worker
12. Various of molten steel
13. Close up of plant worker
14. SOUNDBITE: (Ukrainian) Oleksandr Myronenko, Chief Operating Officer COO of Metinvest Group:
“Well, another rather big challenge for us was the first outflow of personnel associated with combat actions, associated with mobilization. It was also quite difficult for us to reformat the company due to the loss of assets. In fact, we lost 50% of the business. We lost two large plants in Mariupol, Ilyich and Azovstal. We have lost the largest European factory in Avdiivka. And now, because of the hostilities, we were actually forced to suspend coal mining in Pokrovsk.”
15. Various of steel plant at work
16. SOUNDBITE: (Ukrainian) Oleksandr Myronenko, Chief Operating Officer COO of Metinvest Group:
“It is so very difficult, and everyone is already quite tense, tired of this situation that is now. But we have no choice but to grit our teeth and keep working and wait for this war to end. And after that, now to engage in the development of our state. We can be tired, we can be tense, we can be anything, but we must endure and must work. Well, I think everyone understands this to one degree or another.”
17. Various of steel worker, molten steel
STORYLINE:
The steel mill in a partially occupied region of Ukraine is a dystopian maze of flames, chutes and tentacled pipes, vast enough to be a small city. Thunderous blazes of sparks flash above the open furnaces where workers smelt iron ore into streams of molten metal day and night.
The Zaporizhstal Iron and Steelworks, one of Ukraine’s largest steel plants, lies in the country’s industrial east, where Russia’s invasion of its neighbor threatens to throttle production at any moment. Daily battles unfold along a front line 40 kilometers (25 miles) away as the plant churns out materials for military equipment and for foreign manufacturers to use in cars, appliances, and construction.
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