Metallurgical Enterprises operating in the area of self-proclaimed Donetsk national Republic (DND), lack of raw materials due to the fighting in the Donbass, said the head of the DND Alexander Zakharchenko.

on the first day of the weekend Zakharchenko met with heads of steel mills to discuss issues that have arisen in the industry in connection with the fighting. Attention was drawn to the circumstances, with raw materials.

" Companies do not have the opportunity to work in a higher power because of the shortage of raw materials. Regarding the road, we can solve problems on their own, but everything else should hold dialogues, and with Ukraine, " - quoted Zakharchenko on the Internet representation of the Republic's authorities.

according to them, the lack of scrap and coke is observed, for example, yenakiieve iron and steel company. First of scrap on this company did with controlled Ukraine territories. Currently in DND are considering the purchase of raw materials from Russia and Kazakhstan. Cox is expected to receive from local businesses in Yenakiyevo, Gorlovka and Makeyevka.

The Ukrainian authorities began in April in the Donbass military operation against dissatisfied with the February coup d'etat in the region. According to the UN, the victims of the conflict were more than 4, 7 thousands of civilians, more than 10 thousand were injured. On the morning of December 9, in the Donbass began a consistent militias and security forces through the mediation of the OSCE another truce. After a month of silence on 9 January fighting in the area was resumed in practice across the line of contact.

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