In CADO, some of the equipment at the Stirol chemical plant in Horlivka, where the occupiers solemnly announced the start of work in November 2021 and accepted 25 employees, is intended to be cut into scrap metal in order to pay wages. This was reported in the separatist Telegram channel with reference to an employee of the enterprise. According to him, full-fledged work at the chemical plant has not yet begun. “Firstly, everyone is waiting for full-fledged financing from the Russian Federation, and this process is very protracted. Secondly, launching one or two non-core workshops in order to promote themselves was a huge mistake, since there is no and cannot be profitability without the main production facilities. And everything stands idle there. Garbage is still being removed and partially plundered workshops are being inspected”, – the report said. Under these conditions, the Russian occupiers found a “wise decision” that they have been using in CADO since the fall of 2014. “Since there is no funding, but something is allegedly being done so that the workers do not run away at all, they decided: to write off the equipment and metal structures of the SK24 sulfuric acid shop, the ammonia shop, the polystyrene production shop and the salt shop! To sell suitable equipment (you can guess to which country) and cut metal structures and obsolete equipment for scrap! Hand over everything to the Yenakiieve Iron and Steel Works and use the proceeds to pay the wage arrears”, – one of the employees of the enterprise told. According to him, the plant’s employees have not been paid wage arrears for September-December 2018, July-December 2019, January-December 2020, January-April, June and September 2021.

(C)OSTROV 2022