A Ukrainian chemical plant was targeted by a Russian airstrike early Monday — causing a terrifying evacuation as potentially deadly ammonia leaked for hours, local …
A Ukrainian chemical plant was targeted by a Russian airstrike early Monday — causing a terrifying evacuation as potentially deadly ammonia leaked for hours, local officials said. The plant in Sumy was hit just hours after at least eight died when a shopping center was demolished in capital Kyiv — and as many as 80 foreign and Ukrainian troops were killed in a cruise missile strike on a military training center in Rivne, officials said. “Warning! Ammonia leak,” Sumy regional governor Dmytro Zhyvytsky warned just after 4 a.m. after the attack on the Sumykhimprom plant on the outskirts of the city of about 263,000 people. Those within a 3-mile radius of the plant were told to either flee or shelter in a sealed area, with tips given on first aid for anyone affected. Exposure to high concentrations of ammonia in the air “can result in blindness, lung damage or death,” New York’s health department notes.
