On Friday morning, a fire broke out at an acetone production plant in Gatchina, Russia, near St. Petersburg, Reuters reported. The Russian Ministry of Defense claims that no Ukrainian drones have been detected in the area.
Russian media reported that an acetone production plant in the city of Gatchina, Leningrad Region, 40 kilometers from St. Petersburg, Russia, caught fire on Friday morning.
The fire has covered an area of about two thousand square meters. Russian media reported that there was an acetone leak. Employees have been evacuated and air samples are taken throughout the city to determine the concentration of hazardous substances.
Officially, the cause of the fire is not known, and the prosecutor’s office has started an investigation. The Uzbek portal “Daryo” reported that “an explosion occurred around 6 o’clock in the morning, after which huge columns of smoke rose above the city.” Experts do not rule out that there was a technical failure. According to “47news” portal, the fire occurred in the Limpak warehouse.
An acetone production plant caught fire in the Leningrad region of Russia Kovalenko/Telegram
Russia “trying to hide the real production of factories”
As noted by the Ukrainian news agency Yunian, fires occasionally occur in some Russian industrial facilities. At the end of last year, “a warehouse containing parts of drones used by the aggressor to attack Ukraine was burned,” Yunian wrote. He also noted that acetone is used in the weapons industry.
On Friday, Andriy Kovalenko, head of the Center for Combating Disinformation of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, commented on the fire outbreak in Gatchina on the Telegram platform. “In the regions of Rostov and Leningrad of the Russian Federation, an attack was made on camouflaged military facilities,” he wrote.
“Russia presents military factories as ordinary and tries to hide their real production. But everything is known” – we can read further in the entry.
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Main photo source: Kovalenko/Telegram
