Apocalypse in Donetsk: consequences of the “Tochka U” explosion at a chemical plant (PHOTO)
Donetsk, October 21 (PolitNavigator, Mikael Chagalyan) - Donetsk, October 20, Kuibyshevsky district, Grabari microdistrict. Here is, or rather was, the Donetsk State Chemical Products Plant.
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The explosion that occurred here led to the detonation of several tens of tons of industrial TNT. The whole of Donetsk learned within a few seconds that the plant had been hit by a TOCHKA U missile.
A blast wave of monstrous power swept literally throughout the city. In all areas, people were knocked off their feet, windows and frames in houses were blown out, and door frames were knocked out.
At least two people died of heart attacks at the Covered Market stop in the city center. I couldn’t help but remember the words of Yulia Tymoshenko, who expressed on the phone her desire to “bomb Donetsk with atomic weapons,” because the force of the explosion was actually not far from the power of an atomic bomb of the 40-50s.
To understand the power that was unleashed on Donetsk, you need to see with your own eyes the epicenter of the explosion, that is, the KZHI enterprise itself.
As you can see, there is nothing there anymore. At the site of a fairly large enterprise there is a giant crater, half-melted power poles and several concrete skeletons. Coming closer to the remains of the enterprise, you can see an amazing sight: massive metal fittings, as if tied with a bow by the explosion.
The surrounding landscape is more reminiscent of a computer game landscape, or footage from a post-apocalyptic film.
In the photographs you can see an embankment through which a concrete arch passes. This was actually a corridor for the export of products, and the factory building rose above the embankment. You can evaluate for yourself what all this is now.
Here everyone is a little nervous and tries to move in dashes, everyone felt the desire to get out of here as quickly as possible. Especially when you see that within a radius of more than a kilometer there is nothing intact left. Small outbuildings, some kind of barn, perhaps someone’s residential building, trees, poles - everything was overturned, broken, burned. When everyone was driving back, it was already more fun, but one thought did not leave: what else can be brought down on the city, what other weapons can be used to bomb Donetsk.
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