The Kremlin-controlled leaders of the unrecognized statelets "DPR" and "LPR" in eastern Ukraine, Denis Pushilin and Leonid Pasechnik, are handing over to a Russian businessman Yevgeny Yurchanko a number of large metallurgical enterprises in the occupied part of Donbas which they claim are "problematic." After certain parts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions were occupied by Russian-controlled forces, the leaders of self-styled "republics" launched "nationalization" of Ukrainian businesses. Mineral resources extracted in the occupied Donbas are exported to Russia by rail at a reduced cost, through Russian intermediaries.