Ukraine’s richest man wants to sue Russia for heavy losses after bombing of steel plants in Mariupol. “We will certainly sue Russia and demand compensation for all losses and lost companies,” Rinat Akhmetov, owner of Ukraine’s largest steel producer, Metinvest, announced on Thursday.
The Russian attack resulted in the loss of 17 to 20 billion dollars. “The final amount will be determined in the case against Russia,” Akhmetov told Ukrainian media portal mrpl.city.
Steel factory almost completely destroyed
In addition to the Azovstal Steel Works, billionaire Akhmetov’s Metinvest also includes the Ilyich Iron and Steel Works in Mariupol. The city was fiercely fought over as the last bastion fighters had entrenched themselves in the Azovstal steelworks. You have now given up. The factory and the city are almost completely destroyed.
Zelenskyj: Time for the sixth and seventh package of sanctions
Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in a video address to the Latvian parliament, urged the EU to approve the sixth package of sanctions against Russia, including an oil embargo, and that the seventh is already in preparation. This is reported by the Ukrainian news agency Ukrinform. He also called for the prosecution of Russians who had committed war crimes.
“We need every opportunity from Europe to bring to justice those who organized and carried out the genocide against the Ukrainian people,” Zelenskyy said. According to the Ukrainian president, there is money behind the tolerance of some countries towards Russia. Calls are being heard for Russia to get what it demands, he also said, according to Reuters.
Source: Krone
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