Metinvest Mining and Metallurgical Group has built about 600 steel bunkers and command posts for the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) and other units as part of Rinat Akhmetov’s Steel Front initiative.
Metinvest’s Chief Operating Officer Oleksandr Myronenko told the American magazine Newsweek that out of the 600 bunkers, about 480 were used to create “hideouts.” Another 120 bunkers were used to make 20 steel command posts, of which about 14 are already in operation and the rest have been delivered to the teams preparing to use them.
The remaining four command posts will be handed over to the National Guard after production is completed. One more will go to the Kraken unit, which is part of the Main Intelligence Directorate.
It takes about a week to build a “hideout”. The six bunkers can be connected into a more complex structure to form a steel command post.
According to Myronenko, the bunkers are designed to provide minimal comfort to the military near the front line. The 20 command posts can accommodate unit commanders, store weapons or provide sleeping quarters for the military.
The bunkers were used to build fortifications along Ukraine’s defense lines near the city of Pokrovsk, Donetsk Oblast.
“Metinvest is a vertically integrated group of steel and mining companies. The Group’s enterprises are located primarily in Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Dnipropetrovs’k regions. The main shareholders of the holding are SCM Group (71.24%) and Smart Holding (23.76%), which jointly manage it. Metinvest Holding LLC is the management company of Metinvest Group.
