Emergency officials have stopped an ammonia leak in an industrial chemical plant, which has contaminated an extensive area of the Eastern Ukrainian town of Sumy
According to officials on Monday, LVIV, Ukraine — Emergency officials have stopped an ammonia leak in the chemical plant, which has polluted an extensive area of Sumy, in the east of Ukrainian city Sumy the city.
Sumy region governor Dmytro Zhyvytskyy hasn’t said exactly what caused the leak that spread around 2.5 km (1.5 miles) in all directions to the plant at Sumykhimprom.
The plant is located on the eastern edge of the city. It has had around 263,000 residents in recent months and has been repeatedly shelled by Russian forces.
KEY DEVELOPMENTS IN THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR:
- Russia insists that Mariupol lay down arms. However, Ukraine isn’t ready to comply.
- “No city anymore”: Mariupol survivors take a train to safety.
- Biden will also make a stop in Poland, important allies during the Ukraine crisis, in his trip next week to Europe
OTHER DEVELOPMENTS TODAY:
Kyiv, Ukraine A shelling attack in the Kyiv neighborhood has destroyed the center of shopping and left a ruined ruin that is still burning early on Monday in the middle of high-rise buildings.
According to the Associated Press journalists at the scene, the night-time shelling in the city’s center on Sunday night resulted in the death of at least six. The force of the blast destroyed every window in the next high-rise and bent the frames of their metal.
The distant sounds of artillery were heard as the firefighters plowed through the wreckage in the highly city-dwelling Podil district.
LIV Ukraine An ammonia spill in an industrial plant for chemical production in the Eastern Ukrainian town of Sumy has caused contamination of an area that is more than 2.5 kilometers (about 1.5 miles), the officials announced early on Monday.
The regional governor Dmytro Zhyvytskyy hasn’t said what caused the leak.
Its Sumykhimprom plant is located on the eastern edge of the city. It has a population of around 263,000. It’s been repeatedly shelled by Russian forces in the last few months.
“For the center of Sumy, there is no threat now, since the wind does not blow on the city,” Zhyvytskyy said.
He also said that the village of Novoselytsya, located about 1.5 miles (1 mile) southwest of Sumy, is in danger.
Emergency workers were trying to stop the leak.
NEW YORK NEW YORK –The Russian military offered Ukrainian soldiers defending the strategically important port to Mariupol to surrender arms and leave the city through humanitarian corridors. However, the proposal was immediately rejected by the Ukrainian authorities.
Colonel. General. Mikhail Mizintsev said Sunday that all Ukrainian soldiers could quit at the Azov Seaport on Monday with safe routes to evacuate civilians who had previously agreed to by Ukraine and travel to areas controlled by Ukrainian authorities. The general said”that “all those who lay down arms will be guaranteed a safe exit from Mariupol.”
Mizintsev said Russia would be waiting up to five a.m. Monday to receive a verbal Kyiv response to the Russian suggestion for the Ukrainian troops to quit Mariupol. However, he didn’t specify what actions Russia would take if its “humanitarian offer” were rejected.
Ukraine’s Vice Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk stated in remarks reported by Ukrainska Pravda news outlet that Kyiv already had informed Russia that “there can be no talk about surrender and laying down weapons.” She dismissed the Russian declaration in the sense of “manipulation.”
Mizintsev confirmed that the distribution of humanitarian aid to Mariupol would be made if Ukrainian troops could leave Mariupol. He also said that civilians could choose to go to Mariupol or remain in Mariupol.
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemned the Russian bombing of a university in Mariupol where people hid from the elements.
In a video address on Monday morning, Zelenskyy said about 400 civilians were sheltering within the art school located in the city of besieged Azov City, a port on the Sea when an explosive Russian bomb attacked them.
“They are under the rubble, and we don’t know how many of them have survived,” the official said. “But we know that we will certainly shoot down the pilot who dropped that bomb, like about 100 other such mass murderers whom we already have downed.”
Zelenskyy, who addressed lawmakers of parliamentarians from the Israeli Parliament via video on Sunday Zelenskyy, acknowledged Israel for its attempts to facilitate negotiations with Russia. Zelenskyy praised Israeli Premier Naftali Bennett for his efforts to “find a negotiation track with Russia … so that we sooner or later start talking with Russia, possibly in Jerusalem.”
“It would be the right place to find peace if possible,” said the official.
The Ukrainian president also stated that he spoke on Sunday British Premier Boris Johnson, a “true friend of Ukraine,” to discuss his support for Ukraine at the upcoming Summit of the Group of Seven and NATO.
Zelenskyy claimed that Zelenskyy said 7,295 Ukrainians were evicted from zones of fighting on Sunday, with nearly 4000 from Mariupol. He also praised the people of the city of Kherson in the south Kherson for going out on the streets Sunday to protest against the Russian occupation and to show “Ukrainian courage, armless against the occupiers.”
