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A steel plant ready for war shows hit to Ukraine’s economy

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( ) -q-23- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “threat of shelling.”

The damage to Ukraine’s metal industry has crippled a lucrative sector and key employer needed to support an economy cratered by war.

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TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. Prices are higher for products that the Zaporizhstal plant makes, and they’re harder to get to customers that used to span the globe.

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VERBATIM: Efforts to restore production and get goods moving again to customers worldwide will be crucial to helping Ukraine rebuild. That is true at a steel plant near the southwestern front line in Zaporizhzhia that is running below full capacity and a third of its 10,000 workers are idle. Workers brave not only the intense heat from blast furnaces forging steel but the threat of shelling.

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