The authorities of Ukraine announced the leakage of ammonia in the Donetsk region

Togliattiazot OJSC (TOAZ). Archival photoMOSCOW, May 30The branch of the Togliatti-Odessa ammonia pipeline was damaged as a result of hostilities in the Bakhmut district in the Donbass, there is a leak, the ammonia cloud is heading towards Bakhmut controlled by the Ukrainian authorities, the Kyiv-appointed head of the Donetsk regional military administration» Pavel Kirilenko. «In the Bakhmut district, as a result of hostilities, the tightness of the Togliatti-Odessa ammonia pipeline branch was damaged. This branch has not been used since 2014, the valves are closed, but ammonia is now flowing out of it on its own. Ammonia cloud is moving above the soil from the village of Maiskoye towards Bakhmut,» Kirilenko wrote on his Telegram channel. sanitary and epidemiological situation and the spread of infectious diseases, said the head of the National Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev of the Defense Command Center of the Russian Federation.