“There is intelligence that, under various pretexts, people were lured to the territory of the Azot enterprise.
Azot was built back in the Soviet years, where there was civil defense and where a bomb shelter was mandatory for all large enterprises ... There are local residents on the territory of the enterprise, so you need to act very carefully here, ”he said.
He also added that these bomb shelters are not the same as those at Azovstal, since there, for example, there is no “tiering”.
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) they forbid residents to leave these bomb shelters, they literally mine the exits,” Marochko said.
He also added that Azot differs from Azovstal in that there are a lot of chemicals there, so shelling here is more difficult and dangerous.
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.