“The units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, retreating from the industrial zone of Severodonetsk, in order to create obstacles to the successful offensive of our troops, attempted to create a zone of chemical contamination and blew up a tank at the Azot plant, presumably with nitric acid,” the report says.
The department noted that the Ukrainian military chose a special moment of detonation so that the wind would send a poisonous cloud towards Rubizhne and Kremennaya.
On the evening of May 31, the Ambassador of the Luhansk People's Republic in Russia, Rodion Miroshnik, announced the explosion of a container with chemicals at the Azot chemical plant in Severodonetsk.