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title: "Sievierodonetsk  Set to Fall- But, wait.."
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<https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/head-sievierodonetsk-says-just-20-city-ukrainian-hands-2022-06-01/>

> **Ukrainian forces are holding just a fifth of the eastern city of Sievierodonetsk but there is still hope that they can prevent Russia taking full control, the head of the city administration told Reuters in a telephone interview on Wednesday.**

**But wait… Ukraine’s defenders claim a chemical plant was struck by Russia**!

<https://nypost.com/2022/06/01/face-melting-nitric-acid-spews-into-the-sky-during-russian-attack/>

> **Footage taken by a Ukrainian defender shows a spewing cloud of nitric acid as Russian forces pushed to take the strategic city Severodonetsk in a bid to turn the tide of the [war.](https://www.thesun.co.uk/topic/ukraine-war/)**
> 
> Russian forces stepped up their attack on the battered city of Severodonetsk by **striking a chemical plant** that sent a huge cloud of smoke into the air.

![](https://i0.wp.com/pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/image.png?resize=379%2C700&ssl=1)**Thoughts:**

**Is this nitric acid? I can’t tell from the picture?**

**If Russia was advancing with such success, as is acknowledged, this major city is set to fall to Russian and separatist fighters would they bomb this chemical plant?**

**That seems counter productive.**

**What seems more plausible is that an attack of this type would be an act of desperation- undertaken by a force on the verge of losing ground as an attempt to stave off the inevitable**

> A Russian source said: “***Footage has emerged of an explosion of a chemical tanker, presumably containing nitric acid, set off by the Ukrainian armed forces at the Azot plant in Severodonetsk.”***

**Thoughts?**