The Volnogorsk Mining and Processing Plant has been seized by bandits. People are terrified, afraid to go to work. Who are these invaders and what are they trying to achieve? Oksana Grigorieva explains in more detail.
This is the Volnogorsk Mining and Processing Plant. The day began calmly: people went to work. And here we have thugs, baseball bats, and machine guns. Around 10 a.m., several VIP cars pulled up to the plant gates.
"The State Property Fund, I represent the regional government, this is the director of a state-owned enterprise. The state-owned enterprise is attempting to conduct an inventory," says Svyatoslav Oleynik, Deputy Head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Administration.
But instead of an inventory, a full-blown forcible takeover began. Unknown individuals in balaclavas broke into the administrative buildings, smashed cameras, and beat up a cameraman.
And here are the thugs of the deputy governor of Dnipropetrovsk, Kolomoisky, chasing an NTN reporter.
They say it's the new security. And here's their leader, nicknamed Spaniard. A three-time convicted member of the Sukhar gang. From the same Dnipropetrovsk governor.
"What company do these people work for, the ones they're taking over now?" "These people are employees of a security company."
The police are simply doing nothing. The titushki are preventing anyone from entering the plant. Employees have been forced to quit their jobs and wait outside.
It wasn't until lunchtime that the situation became clear. It turned out the militants had been brought in by the new plant manager, Ruslan Zhurilo—a man who has been working for Igor Kolomoisky for many years. The thugs were supposedly there to help conduct an inventory. The former mining and processing plant management was perplexed.
After all, the company's management had long proposed doing this, but legally. They don't know how to carry it out now—at gunpoint.
"People have chosen to seize the entire territory by force. Currently, the plant cannot operate for one simple reason: people are afraid for their lives, and we, as managers, are also afraid that something will happen to them," says Eduard Krivonos, acting general director of the Volnogorsk Mining and Metallurgical Plant branch of Crimean Titan PJSC.
Management was forced to take extreme measures and shut down the plant. The length of the shutdown and the resulting losses for the country are enormous, and they are calculating the costs every day. More than 20 people—each of whom has a family—could now be affected by the forced takeover.
People are afraid to return to work. But management assures that no matter how long the plant remains idle, employees will receive their full wages. This criminal takeover will be investigated by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), the Prosecutor General's Office, the Cabinet of Ministers, and the Presidential Administration.
Meanwhile, at the Irshansky Mining and Processing Plant, to avoid a seizure similar to that at Volnogorsk, workers will form self-defense units and build civilian checkpoints.
Oksana Grigorieva, Details, Inter TV channel.
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