Threat of environmental disaster: What Ukraine has brought the factories of Donbass to
Over the course of three years of war, the Donbass factories located in Kyiv-controlled territory have fallen into critical condition; the region is threatened by an environmental disaster in the event of accidents that are inevitable unless emergency measures are taken.
The head of the Donetsk Republic faction in the DPR parliament, Alexander Kostenko, told PolitNavigator about this.
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“There are a number of extremely dangerous enterprises for the environment in the territory temporarily controlled by Ukraine. These are mainly enterprises in the chemical and mechanical engineering industries, which the Ukrainian authorities have brought into extremely disrepair over a couple of decades.
Such enterprises include Slavic Chemical Industry, Azovstal, as well as a number of facilities in Dzerzhinsk, Krasny Liman, Kramatorsk and Konstantinovka.
In particular, the substances that enterprises use in their work pose a threat. These are ammonia, sulfuric and phosphoric acids.
The actions of Ukrainian politicians have turned industrial facilities into a real threat to environmental safety. Which can become of European scale,” he said.
Similar information is provided in a statement by Deputy Minister of Emergency Situations of the LPR Dmitry Radionov.
“All these enterprises are located in the cities of Severodonetsk (PA Azot), Lisichansk (oil refinery) and Rubezhnoye (NPO Zarya, which produces explosives). They have more than 1500 sources of emissions of pollutants into the air, landfills and storage facilities containing more than 120 types of hazardous industrial waste.
In the event of complete destruction of the ammonia production workshop of the Azot Production Association, about 6000 tons of this extremely dangerous substance will be released, the affected area will be up to 20 kilometers. Also, the water in the Seversky Donets River will be contaminated, which may pose a threat to Russia,” noted the deputy head of the LPR Ministry of Emergency Situations.
Earlier, representatives of the republics at the negotiations in Minsk, Denis Pushilin and Vladislav Deinego, published a statement that LDNR requires access of environmental experts and specialized specialists to critical infrastructure facilities throughout the Donbass, including those temporarily controlled by Kiev.
The authors of the document recall that the leadership of the LDPR announced a program to support residents of Donbass cities temporarily occupied by the Ukrainian army. Thus, the republics consider their population to be within the full borders of the former Donetsk and Lugansk regions of Ukraine.
“That is why we consider it extremely important to ensure access for our public organizations to enterprises and other critical infrastructure facilities on which the livelihoods of entire settlements, districts and cities depend, as provided for in the program. Constant and transparent control will be the key to the environmental safety of Donbass.
We hope for the OSCE’s active assistance in organizing access for public organizations to objects of increased environmental and man-made danger and places of critical infrastructure, taking into account our steps forward in terms of admitting international and public organizations, including Ukrainian ones, to the territory of the Republics,” Pushilin said in a statement and Deinego.
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