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Russia strikes ‘nitric acid tank’ at chemical plant in Ukraine’s Severodonetsk
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Smoke and dirt rise from the city of Severodonetsk, during shelling in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas, May 26, 2022, (Aris Messinis/AFP)
KYIV — Russian forces struck a tank containing nitric acid at a chemical plant in Ukraine’s eastern city of Severodonetsk that they are trying to seize, the local governor says, calling on people to stay in shelters.
An airstrike by Moscow forces “hit a tank with nitric acid at a chemical plant,” the governor of the Lugansk region, Sergiy Gaiday, says on Telegram.
“Nitric acid is dangerous if inhaled, swallowed and in contact with skin,” he says.
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