From my ongoing work about “Ecocide”

A
red village. This is how Radinac – a village about a 15-minute drive
away from the center of Smederevo – can be described in three words. The
walls of houses, air conditioning units, antennas, lamp posts –
everything that was once white is now a copper, dark red color. And not
by the will of the inhabitants – the Železara Smederevo steel mill gets
the “credit” for the village’s appearance.

According to data from
the Smederevo public health body, which a watchdog called Tvrdjava
obtained through a freedom of information request, the municipality of
around 100,000 people reported 6,866 cancer cases in 2019, up from 1,738
in 2011.
The plant says it has invested 300 million euros in
technology and pollution reduction since China’s biggest steelmaker,
Hesteel, bought it from the Serbian state for 46 million euros ($53
million).