Video footage of the bombing circulated on social media outlets over the weekend. On Saturday, Azovstal chief executive Enver Tskitishvili posted a video to Metinvest’s YouTube page addressing the situation.
 
In the video, Tskitishvili confirmed that the plant had been hit by two Russian missiles; one hit a coal stockpile and the other nearly striking the coke oven battery.
 
He also addressed concerns that the damage to Azovstal poses an environmental threat to the city of Mariupol.
 
“On 24 February, when this war began, we, the managers of Azovstal, began to develop a comprehensive program for idling the plant,” Tskitishvili said. “We reduced, to an absolutely safe level, the environmental impact on the city.”
 
“I want to say that it is still too early to say, or even impossible to say, that Azovstal has been stopped for good,” Tskitishvili concluded. “We will come back to the city, we will rebuild this plant, we will revive it. And it will work and bring glory to Ukraine as it has always done before. Because Mariupol is Ukraine, Azovstal is Ukraine. It was, it is and it will be.”
 
Read the full video transcript in English here.