Falling demand, unprofitable loans, and interest rates too high to justify the business model for steel. (And the same thing can be said about basically every other Russian industrial business model.)
Putin is putting an end to the remnants of the post-Soviet industry that the Russian economy has largely been based on... by turning it into Detroit. Only without anything comparable to replace it.

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Falling demand, unprofitable loans, and interest rates too high to justify the business model for steel.