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"We are currently working on the future philosophy of the city, its economic model, which will be different than it was before 2022. There is an agreement with big business that they will restore a number of metallurgical businesses. But it will be to a different extent and in a different form", Boychenko said.

According to him, metallurgical production will remain at Illich Iron and Steel Works of Mariupol, which is part of Rinat Akhmetov's group of companies.

"And the territory of Azovstal can be an exhibition area, there can be the Mariupol Defense Museum, the Museum of Resistance, the Museum of Tragedy. The territory there is very large, and part of it can be used for construction later", the mayor said.

• Mariupol was surrounded on March 2, 2022, when russian troops approached it from the south and began advancing along the Azov coast. On May 16, 2022, military personnel were withdrawn from Azovstal in Mariupol to the temporarily occupied Novoazovsk and Olenivka, thus giving russia full control over the city.

• According to the Resistance, two years after the start of the russian occupation, a significant number of surviving houses in the city are still not connected to the heating system. There are also problems with electricity, water supply and garbage collection in Mariupol.