'A chance to survive': Ukraine's fortress steel mills

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ZAPORIZHZHIA (Ukraine) — Food and water stockpiles, generators, toilets, stacks of mattresses and even wood-burning stoves in bunkers deep underground — the Soviets built this Ukrainian steelworks with war in mind.

A sister plant of the Azovstal mill that's the last redoubt of Ukrainian forces in the port city of Mariupol, the Zaporizhstal factory shows how these Stalin-era sites are designed to defy Russia's invasion.

The bunkers underneath the giant Azovstal and Zaporizhstal plants were built in the early 1930s, when the world recovered from one war while plodding towards another, and they are intended to shelter thousands of workers. The long, brightly lit room has rows of wooden benches and is supposed to be able to hold 600 people.

Above that shelter, the roughly 5.5-square-kilometre site has about half the footprint of Azovstal but is still massive and the only way to efficiently get between its units is on a vehicle with wheels. Ukraine accounts for only about one per cent of US steel imports, according to American authorities, who had imposed the 25 per cent protective tariff, and logistics is a major challenge for Ukrainian exporters with the usual transport routes shattered by the war.

 

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