The leadership of ‘ISD’ corporation has confirmed the stopping of Alchevsk Metallurgical Plant and Avdiivka Coke and also claimed about threat of stopping Dnipro Steel. The press-service of the concern has published this statement.

‘We officially confirm that beginning from today the iron, steel, rolled products, metallurgical coke production is absolutely stopped in Alchevsk. The generation of electric energy off. Unique industrial complex without analogues in Europe simply freezed. Believe, it’s a horrible silence, which can’t give any positive emotions’, ‘ISD’ representatives emphasized.

‘Dnipro Steel, which is in Kamenskoe of Dnipro region, is also on the verge of stopping production, because it directly depends from coke supply from Alchevsk’, Corporation clarified and added that they won’t asses concrete politicians and political forces, which are involved in different processes, connected with the creation of the impediments in the activity of industrial enterprises.

Corporation representatives also emphasized that industrial enterprises are not only business-units.

‘Our enterprises are very important economy and infrastructure of the country elements generally, it’s the the largest taxpayers and largest employers’, notes the statement.

Otherwise, according to the Corporation representatives, further blocking of the activity of the industrial enterprises ‘brings the state to macroeconomic turbulence, every Ukrainian family will feel the circumstances of it in a closer perspective. The job cuts, layoffs, falling exports, the decline of foreign exchange earnings, currency devaluation is the obvious list of the circumstances of further blocking of the activity of our enterprises’.

At the same time, Corporation representatives has commented the statement of ‘LPR’ fighters’ chieftains about coming ‘nationalization’ of the enterprises.

‘In conditions, when enterprises will be forcibly ‘nationalized’ by subjects without any recognized legal status, the unique industrial enterprises will turn simply into the set of buildings and constructions, which won’t be able to carry out any economic, production, financial, trading activities. The international banks, financial institutions, insurance agencies and other important participants in international economic relations won’t further have cooperation with such a subject with ‘uncertain legal status’. This will bring to accelerated loss of productive assets of their economic value and further social explosion in the city and region’, Corporation representatives emphasized.

We would remind that Yenakiyevo Steel Plant, belonging to ‘Metinvest’ group and located on occupied by fighters territory, stopped to supplied from mining and processing enterprises of group as a result of blockade of railway road.