This was announced by Petro Andryushchenko, adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, on Espreso TV.
"Azovstal is being demined and cut into scrap. Some metal workers have been let there on a commercial basis - they demine and cut it themselves. Then they give it to collaborators for one price, who then take it to Rostov and sell it there 20 times more expensive. As for the metal plant - demining and arrangement of military bases are going on there.
According to the mayor's adviser, the metal plant is an area closed to people.
"There is still AzovElectroStal, there are melting furnaces there, and they want to start it in the spring. So that the scrap that is collected in the city is remelted and sold as metal products. Scrap, unlike rolled metal, is not under sanctions in the Russian Federation. The port works very slowly, because there is enough electrical capacity for the port cranes to work normally," Andryushchenko concluded.