According to ARD tv reports, German WKB companies Systems GmbH and Knauf are to be active in the process of rebuilding Mariupola, which was destroyed by the actions of the Russians.
According to a journalistic investigation conducted by the station, after the launch of a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the city of Mariupol, which erstwhile had almost half a million inhabitants, was completely destroyed. A year after the outbreak of the conflict, only 150 000 people had already lived in a city that had been destroyed. Serhij Zacharov, Deputy Mayor of Mariupola, estimated in February 2023 that 20 to 25 1000 civilians could have been killed as a consequence of the war, although these numbers may even be higher.
Zacharow stressed, in an interview with PAP, that only about 10 percent of the housing building survived, and that people from different regions, specified as Buriaci, Dagestan and Chechnya, were introduced to the reconstruction. German journalists propose that 2 German companies are active in the reconstruction process. According to the information provided by The Kyiv Independent, the programme "Monitor" considers that Russia uses the cement supplied by Knauf, whose office are in Iphofen, Bavaria. Knauf is expected to employment as many as 4,000 employees in Russia and make "billion-dollar turnover" on the marketplace there.
However, in consequence to ARD's inquiries, Knauf expressed its condemnation of the war effort in Ukraine and the Russian invasion. At the same time, the company has ensured that it respects the sanctions imposed by the European Union and that the articles it produces in Russia are intended exclusively for the marketplace there.
Lega artis AppAccording to the information provided by The Kyiv Independent, journalists noticed concrete blocks wrapped in green foil, bearing the name of the German company WKB Systems from North Rhine-Westphalia. The main shareholder of this company is simply a Russian named Viktor Budarin, whose name is not included in the list of sanctions of the European Union.
According to reports from ARD journalists, the German company has “for years” supplied the essential components for the concrete blocks production factories utilized by Budarina. Now WKB Systems is to be active in delivering its products to Mariupola. However, WKB Systems did not comment on this.
The independent portal Medusa reported last summertime that the marketplace does not deficiency offers of apartments in Mariupolu. According to announcements on the Russian portal Avito, the average price of the flat at the time was about 3 million rubles (about $34,000), while home prices were higher, reaching an average of 4.8 million rubles (about $55,000).
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