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Reuters
Reuters
Business
Natalia Zinets

Ukraine rebases businesses from war front to shield vital producers

An employee prepares a facility for producing fire trucks, as the factory was relocated from Chernihiv region to Lviv amid Russia's invasion, in Lviv, Ukraine June 5, 2022. REUTERS/Pavlo Palamarchuk

Oleg Averyanov's factory produced fire trucks and employed 600 people until it was forced to halt operations and close its doors as a Russian invasion force poured over the border into his region in northeastern Ukraine on Feb. 24.

Months later, the 44-year-old is gearing up to restart some of the plant's operations 700 km (435 miles) away in the western city of Lviv, where he has moved some staff and 20 rail cars of equipment and production lines that weighed hundreds of tonnes.

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