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Rachael Burford

Russia ‘looting £500m of steel bound for UK and Europe’

The Azovstal mill is on the outskirts of the devastated city of Mariupol

(Picture: AP)

Vladimir Putin’s army is “looting” steel worth more than £500 million from Ukraine which was bound for the UK and Europe, it was claimed on Friday.

The metal is being taken to Russia from plants including the Azovstal mill on the outskirts of the devastated city of Mariupol, according to the boss of  Ukraine’s largest steel firm. It is then being sold on to Asia and Africa.

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