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The wiring of machines cranking out red-hot steel bars and ingots drowns out the shouts of workers donning sooty hard hats and protective jumpsuits. The noise is deafening inside global steel giant ArcelorMittal’s plant in Kryvyi Rih in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast — Ukraine’s largest steel plant — but quiet compared to pre-war. Russia’s full-scale invasion has eaten away Ukraine’s metallurgy industry, with only six remaining plants producing 6.2 million metric tons last year. This is a far cry from the bumper year in 2021 when nine plants produced 22 million metric tons. This year’s prediction of ov…

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