A chemical plant damaged by Russian shelling is leaking ammonia, which is contaminating a zone of 1.5 miles around the facility
The Governor of Sumy says downwind village of Novoselytsya is at risk. However, the city of Sumy appears to be less at risk due to the direction of the wind.
The plant’s emergency personnel and the State Emergency Service are responding to the leak.
Meanwhile, Ukraine is planning to send up to 50 buses into Mariupol on Monday to urgently evacuate residents who are trapped.
Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister has rejected a Russian demand to give up the port city…
The Russian Ministry of Defence had offered to open humanitarian corridors in exchange for a surrender of the city but it’s not happening.
Assistant Director at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center Doug Klain says these corridors are not to be trusted.
“[Russians] have given Ukrainians every reason not to trust these humanitarian corridors,” he says.
“Ukrainians have been taken through these corridors into Russia, into what Ukrainians are calling camps, where people are searched… and then are taken to places inside Russia where they have not been heard from again.”
