Metinvest to help residents of Sartana restore houses destroyed by militants' shelling

Illich Steel and Iron Works in Mariupol, which is part of Metinvest group, will help the residents of the town of Sartana (near Mariupol) to restore houses destroyed by shelling by militants on August 16.

According to the Works' Director General Yuriy Zinchenko, "the help will be fast and for everyone."

He also said that the town's mayor and senior Illich Steel and Iron Works' employees would coordinate the joint actions.

According to him, the works will help to restore the town's infrastructure and help the families affected by the shelling.

"This night, the shells damaged 60 houses, five of which can't be restored. Instead of [being] completely destroyed [houses], the families will be offered [to settle] in vacant houses in the town. The works will prepare them for a comfortable living," Zinchenko wrote on Facebook.

In turn, Azovstal Director General Enver Tskitishvili also expressed his solidarity with residents of Sartana on Facebook.

As reported, the outskirts of Mariupol were shelled by heavy artillery at around 22:00 on Sunday. As a result of the shelling of the settlement of Sartana, which is situated near the eastern outskirts of Mariupol, three civilians were killed and another six were wounded.

Metinvest's companies are mainly located in Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhia and Dnipropetrovsk regions.

Metinvest is a vertically integrated group of mining companies that manages assets in every link of the production chain, from iron ore and coke production to semi-finished and finished steel products and rolled metal piping, as well as the production of other goods with high added value