“In fact, one of the largest metallurgical plants in Europe is being destroyed,” Denisenko said.
Putin wants to destroy Mariupol and Ukraine’s economic potential
The adviser to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs emphasized: it is Putin’s personal instruction to destroy Mariupol. And at the same time, this is one of his key tasks in this war.
If the war did not end, no matter what happened next, his task would not be the demilitarization of Ukraine, his task would be the deindustrialization of Ukraine. That is, to make sure that after them we had to rebuild our plants for decades to come,
He stated.