Brigade 28 of the Ukrainian army, on January 28, 2025, in the Donetk region. Photo: Madeleine Kelly / Zuma Press / Profimedia
Russia on Thursday accuses the Ukrainian army of destroying a pipe of an ammonia pipe, which causes emissions of this toxic gas used in agriculture, in order to stop submitting Russian troops in eastern Ukraine, AFP reports, according to News.ro.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, this incident took place on Thursday, 2.5 kilometers east of Rusin and, in the Donetk (East) region, crossed by an ammonia pipe, which connects Russian Togliatti and Ukrainian Odessa.
“The Ukrainian armed forces mined a branch of the ammonia pipe (…). When withdrawing the units of the Ukrainian armed forces in this area, the pipeline was destroyed, which trained the emission of ammonia residues through the damaged part,” accusing the Russian Ministry.
No victim has completed among the Russian military, the ministry gives assurances.
He publishes a video recording in which large amounts of white smoke appear coming out of a line in the middle of the field.
In Order to slow the Advance of the Units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation About 2.5 km East of the Settlement of Rusin Yar in the Donetsk People's Republic, The Ukrainian Armed Forces Mined a Branch of the Tolyatti-Odesa Ammonia Pipeline.
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– East_calling (@east_calling) October 9, 2025
Ukraine did not react immediately to these accusations.
Ammonia is a gas produced in an industrial way, for various purposes, which is toxic if it is inhaled in great conception.
The town of Rusin is on the front, near an area where Russian forces made a piercing of the Ukrainian defense in August, after which they were partially rejected by a Ukrainian counter -offensive.
