“As a result of the shelling of production facilities, the rectification shop was damaged, as well as tanks for finished products,” the headquarters said in a Telegram message.

Earlier, the Ambassador of the Lugansk People's Republic in Russia, Rodion Miroshnik, said that an explosion occurred in the Severodonetsk region, there is a "smoky mushroom of clearly chemical origin."

The head of the LPR, Leonid Pasechnik, noted that there were up to 1,000 Ukrainian nationalists at the Azot chemical plant, some of them began to surrender.