Occupied Mariupol: Russia's Industrial Plundering.
Originally Published 2 years ago — by The Moscow Times
Russian companies have been looting industrial goods, including steel, coal, pig iron, and cargo containers, from factories in the occupied Ukrainian city of Mariupol since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion. The estimated value of the goods plundered is over $15 million. The Western-sanctioned Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) seized nearly $100,000 worth of freight containers in Mariupol, aided by the Belarus-based Mogilev Metallurgical Factory. The investigative report also revealed that the shipment of Ukrainian coal into Russia was facilitated mainly by the Taltek Group, a coal-mining and transportation company whose president Yuri Kocherinsky lives near Russian general Sergei Surovikin in the elite Rublyovka neighborhood in Moscow’s suburbs.