Moscow tightens economic grip on southern Ukraine

BERDYANSK, Ukraine - Little appears to have changed for Alexei Andrusenko, the head of a foundry in Ukraine's southern city of Berdyansk, who is happy to have kept all his staff since Moscow took control of the city.

But now the factory's produce - once sold to Ukrainian or international steel groups - will likely be bound for Russia and Kremlin ally Belarus.and captured territories in the south of the country, Moscow has sought to strengthen their economic ties. He also raised concerns about the depleting stocks of their raw materials that previously came from neighbouring Mariupol, another key Ukrainian city on the shores of the Sea of Azov.

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