Ukraine plant builds 6-person bunkers for battle’s entrance strains

For now, meaning assembling prefabricated supplies into underground shelters utilizing a Soviet-era design. They have already shipped 123 of the 2-meter (6 1/2-foot) -wide, 6-meter (20-foot) -long buildings buildings to areas that embrace japanese Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk provinces.

Each shelter requires practically 2 tons of metal. The bunkers are constructed to resist projectiles with calibers of as much as 152 millimeters, can accommodate as much as six troopers and should be buried 1.5 meters (about 5 toes) underground.

“This is so they can rest, sit out the attacks,” mentioned Petro Zhuk, who manages the 40-person workforce constructing the shelters. Although the buildings take 165 man-hours to supply together with the prefabrication, his workforce can construct one a day, Zhuk mentioned.

The six beds inside are manufactured from wooden. The shelter additionally comes with a spot to place a conveyable range, a double flooring that can be utilized to retailer weapons and an exit resulting in the floor together with an entrance reached by tunnel, he defined.

Zhuk speaks compassionately of the Ukrainian troops he hopes will discover a measure of consolation within the bunkers.

“While they are inside, they cannot worry about an attack that could happen while they are asleep,” he mentioned. “They can be warm and comfortable.”

Metinvest additionally owns the Azovstal Iron and Steel Works, a fortress-like plant within the destroyed and now occupied metropolis of Mariupol. During the months Mariupol was below siege, civilians and troopers sheltered there, and the last-ditch stand Ukrainian forces made to defend the plant grew to become a logo of resistance in opposition to Moscow’s invasion.

In an interview with Ukrainian media, Metinvest CEO Yurii Ryzhenkov mentioned the drawings for the bunkers have been discovered within the firm’s archives, courting from when it was a Soviet enterprise. Back then, each plant needed to produce one thing for the military, he mentioned.

Vitalii Yevzhenko, 54, a plant employee concerned in assembling the bunkers, mentioned he thinks what he and his colleagues are doing is essential.

“This is for the victory of Ukraine. The sooner the war ends, the better it will be,” he mentioned.

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