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Severstal remains a global leader in efficiency, with the highest EBITDA margin in the steel industry globally, positive free cash flow generation throughout the cycle and a track record of achieving its targets. To deliver additional growth, the Company has updated its already proven strategy - retaining its fundamental advantages but adding new elements. Severstal's new vision is to be a leader of the steel industry of the future and the first choice for its customers, employees and partners. To achieve this, the Company is setting out new strategic priorities to distance itself further from its competitors. These are: superior client experience, cost leadership and embracing new opportunities. All three will be supported by Severstal's advanced corporate culture. Superior client experience - Severstal aims to offer our customers unique selling propositions on each target market; Cost leadership - Severstal's goal is to achieve a significant cost advantage in basic steel products; New opportunities - Severstal's objective is to access and consequently benefit from the use of global cutting-edge technology and new business-models. Implementing this set of objectives will support the Company in reaching its financial target of increasing EBITDA by 10-15% annually for the next 5 years. (This excludes pricing/macro factors.)

KAZ Minerals is a high growth copper company focused on large scale, low cost, open pit mining in Kazakhstan and the CIS region. It operates the Aktogay and Bozshakol open pit copper mines in the Abay and Pavlodar regions of Kazakhstan, three underground mines and associated concentrators in the East Region of Kazakhstan and the Bozymchak copper-gold mine in Kyrgyzstan. In 2024, KAZ Minerals’ total copper production was 380 kt with by-products of 146 koz of gold, 3,728 koz of silver and 43 kt of zinc in concentrate. The Group’s major operations at Aktogay and Bozshakol have delivered industry leading production growth and transformed KAZ Minerals into a company dominated by world class, open pit copper mines. The Aktogay expansion project to double sulphide processing capacity at the mine was officially opened in October 2021, with first shipments to customers dispatched in December 2021. KAZ Minerals employs over 14,000 people across Kazakhstan and the CIS region.

PJSC Polyus is the largest gold producer in Russia and a top 10 gold producer globally with one of the lowest cost profiles. The Company also holds the world’s fourth largest gold reserves with 64.3 million ounces of proven and probable gold reserves underpinning its strong growth profile.Principal operations of the company are located in Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk and Magadan regions and the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) and include 5 operating mines, alluvial operations and several advanced development projects. In June 2015 Polyus was admitted to the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) and became the first CIS and Eastern Europe company among the members of ICMM.