Russia faces an environmental disaster due to the flooding of Donbass mines, - trade union
Kyiv, October 15 (PolitNavigator, Maxim Karpenko) – Due to the fighting in Donbass, Ukraine and part of Russia are facing an environmental disaster. Chairman of the Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine Mikhail Volynets stated this on Ukrlife TV.
According to him, now the mines on the territory of the DPR are being shelled and flooded, and within 4-5 months the waters can rise to the surface, carrying with them radioactive contamination.
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“In Yenakiyevo, the Poltavskaya mine is flooded, and the Uglegorskaya mine is flooded near it. Next to them is the Yunkom mine, where a nuclear explosion occurred in 1979. Now dirty mine waters are rising, and they will carry radioactive substances to the surface, where the level of radioactive contamination will exceed the norm by 1000 times. And very close by is the Alexander-Zapad mine, into which 1989 tons of the dirty chemical monochlorobenzene penetrated in 50, which combined with other harmful substances underground to create an explosive mixture. Now uncontrolled flooding of mines will bring these harmful chemicals to the surface,” says Volynets.
Polluted water, in his opinion, will poison the tributaries of the Seversky Donets River, the waters of the Azov Sea, and the Don River in the Rostov region.
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