In the occupied city of Gorlovka (“DPR”), a chemical plant for the production of fertilizers “Stirol” is on fire, TASS reports . According to Russian media, the fire occurred as a result of the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The Ukrainian side has not yet commented. There is no chemical threat to the population, said the "mayor" of the city, Ivan Prikhodko.

Concern "Stirol" belonged to Ukrainian businessman Dmitry Firtash, later the plant was seized by the authorities of the so-called DNR. From 2014 to 2017, it was mothballed and, according to local media, resumed operation in 2017. Stirol produced ammonia, carbamide, ammonium nitrate, polystyrene, inorganic salts, organic resins.

Ukrainian media reported that the ammonia pipeline at Stirol had long been cleaned up, there was no production there, the plant was being used as warehouses. At the same time, the Gorlovsky State Chemical Plant, which is located next to Stirol, poses a danger. TNT is stored at the plant, also, according to the source, there are barrels with thousands of tons of chemical military production waste on concrete cradles - in the USSR, the plant produced TNT, rocket fuel, phenol-formaldehyde and epoxy resins, sulfuric and other acids, antifreeze for cars, varnishes and paints, "Whiteness" and other household chemicals. Below them are the mines, which already had an accident in 1989: as a result of a leak of chemical waste, miners and rescuers died then, despite the fact that they were wearing chemical protection. Immediately after the accident, 170 mine rescuers and 70 miners received various disability groups.

In addition, between Gorlovka and Toretsk, in the neutral zone, there are lakes of tailings (waste of chemical production). In 2018, a release from such a tailing dump of the Crimean Titan plant (before the occupation of the peninsula also belonged to the structures of Dmitry Firtash) in the northern Crimea led to mass poisoning of the inhabitants of the city of Armyansk.