Almost 40 Donbass-based businesses, which were under Ukrainian jurisdiction, have had a change in management. This was reported by the head of the DPR, Alexander Zakharchenko. Now, the People's Republics will receive tax revenue and production will remain in the region. Such measures had to be implemented because of the Ukrainian blockade.

Ukrainian plants, which are on the territory controlled by the militia, were taken by the special forces of the DPR. Commissions started to confiscate documents and accounting reports. Now, this process is taking place at some plants, we are familiarizing ourselves with various documents. In some plants, the management is still the same, its members fully supported... supported our task and are now performing it, and there are no problems. "There is only one problem, sabotage occurred at some plants, but it is not critical, and we are dealing with it. Workers are being introduced to the new management".

For the first time in 3 years of fighting, metallurgists, miners, and workers of Donbass are confident that they will have jobs. "We will pay taxes and we will get paid. The blockade won't do them any good. I mean, they prevented coal deliveries from going to themselves. And coal is heat. It’s electricity and everything. We will figure something out, we will work it out, it’s fine".

The Donetsk Metallurgical Plant hasn’t been in operation for 3 years. Furnaces and ladles for casting metal, and high-tech equipment are in a state of disrepair. Less than 100 workers are left out of 600 employees of the plant. We are repairing the furnaces and preparing the ladles at the moment. We'll make them from scratch and repair everything that can be repaired. We are preparing the plant for reactivation. While getting acquainted with the financial documents, the new management is developing the infrastructure of all 40 plants, and is starting negotiations with new suppliers of raw materials.

Under new management, these DPR-based plants, which were controlled by Ukrainian oligarchs until now, are being prepared for launch. In the workshops, the workers are busy getting the equipment back up and running. In the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, workers will be preparing for the launch of a number of plants in the coming months, which were shut down due to a blockade imposed by Kiev.