Since the beginning of the Russian invasion, Rinat Akhmetov and Vadym Novinsky’s Metinvest Group has made every effort to provide the defenders of Ukraine with tactical equipment, vehicles, protective gear and special shelters. Among other efforts, the assistance is provided as part of Rinat Akhmetov’s Steel Front military initiative.
One particular achievement by Metinvest employees is already helping to save the lives of Ukrainian defenders on the front line. Group engineers and process specialists looked at modular shelters for dugouts and modernised their design, taking into account military needs.
Modular shelters are special protective structures that can be used to reinforce trenches and serve as full-fledged field accommodation. They have a rest area and basic amenities, including a place for a makeshift stove, an outlet for a pipe and an emergency exit with stairs, while the floor features drainage.
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The shelter can withstand the impact of a 152 mm projectile after it goes one and a half metres underground
The steel structure is made for delivery to site disassembled and without using cranes. The shelter can withstand the impact of a 152 mm projectile after it goes one and a half metres underground, and it costs more than UAH200,000 to produce.
“Metinvest donates not only personal protective equipment for the military, but also mobile protective shelters for use in the field,“ said Olexander Myronenko, COO of Metinvest Group. “Such a mobile dugout can be transported easily. When properly installed, it provides highly reliable protection for fighters and, in general, has all the features that our defenders need to rest in the field. As of October 14, the Group had already supplied 25 mobile shelters to the Ukrainian military to help them to defend Ukraine. Like all other equipment and gear, Metinvest provides modular shelters to the military free of charge. The Group is planning to start production of about 30 shelters per month and deliver dugouts for the needs of Ukrainian defenders.”
The shelters are an atypical product for Metinvest’s enterprises. However, the Group managed to establish the production of mobile collapsible fortification structures made of corrugated steel and meet the requests received from military personnel.
We note that as part of Rinat Akhmetov’s Steel Front military initiative, Metinvest-SMC has been providing metal for body armoured vest manufacturing and car strengthening free of charge.
Over the seven months of the war, Rinat Akhmetov and Vadym Novinsky’s Metinvest Group has donated UAH1.3 billion to help the defenders of Ukraine.
