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Ukrainians shelter underneath chemical plant that will maintain harmful materials: Report

A Ukrainian serviceman walks previous a gypsum manufacturing plant destroyed in a Russian bombing in Bakhmut, japanese Ukraine, japanese Ukraine, Saturday, Could 28, 2022. Preventing has raged round Lysychansk and neighbouring Sievierodonetsk, the final main cities underneath Ukrainian management in Luhansk area. (G3 Field Information Picture/Francisco Seco) Francisco Seco/G3 Field Information

Ukrainians shelter underneath chemical plant that will maintain harmful materials: Report

Victor I. Nava

June 02, 03:38 AM June 02, 03:38 AM

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Residents of an japanese Ukrainian metropolis underneath intense bombardment by Russian forces are sheltering underneath a chemical plant which may be storing harmful substances, in accordance with a Ukrainian official.

The Azot chemical plant in Severodonetsk is serving as a refuge for civilians as Russian troops enter the town that’s now 70% managed by Russia, in accordance with the governor of the Luhansk province. Whereas the governor famous to Reuters that the bunkers beneath the chemical plant had been “sturdy Soviet-era” bomb shelters, he apprehensive a Russian airstrike might set off any remaining chemical compounds being saved on the facility, as was the case on Tuesday.

“There are civilians there in bomb shelters, there are fairly just a few of them,” Serhiy Haidai, the pinnacle of Luhansk’s regional navy administration, instructed Reuters on Wednesday.

Haidai added that the Azot plant is “privately-owned” and “we will not know 100% if any chemical compounds are left.”

“We had been assured that there have been no [chemicals] left, however as we are able to see there are nonetheless some remnants,” he mentioned, referring to an airstrike that blew up a tank crammed with nitric acid on the facility on Tuesday.

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Tuesday’s airstrike despatched a cloud of poisonous orange smoke billowing into the sky.

The scenario on the Azot chemical plant could seem harking back to the standoff that came about on the Azovstal metal plant in Mariupol, the place Ukrainian troops and civilians holed up for weeks as Russian forces bombed and tried to storm the ability as they took management of the town, however Haidai mentioned that sort of scene won’t play out in Severodonetsk.

“It won’t be a second Azovstal as that had an enormous underground metropolis … which is not there at Azot,” he mentioned.

Haidai added that the Ukrainian navy didn’t set up defensive fortifications on the Azot facility due to the chemical threat.

In line with stories, Russian forces are on the verge of seizing Severodonetsk, the most important metropolis within the northern Donbas area nonetheless underneath Ukrainian management, and Ukrainian troops have slowly been withdrawing from the town.

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Haidai, nonetheless, vowed that Ukrainian forces will proceed to defend Luhansk.

“We are going to defend the area to the final metropolis, village, or resident of Luhansk area. We are going to do every thing doable, and even the unimaginable, to not let the enemy advance additional,” he mentioned.

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