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   From: kenyan@barackobama.com   
      
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   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.   
      
   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.   
      
   The Ukrainian authorities have warned people to stay inside due   
   to the risk posed by toxic fumes after the blast.   
      
   Nitric acid, which is yellow or red, is corrosive and can cause   
   severe burns, ulcerations, and scarring when in contact with   
   skin.   
      
   Its vapor can also cause pulmonary edema when inhaled – which   
   can be fatal.   
      
   Luhansk governor Serhiy Haidai said the dangerous chemical   
   release was caused when Vladimir Putin’s forces carried out an   
   airstrike on a chemicals plant.   
      
   Haidai said an aerial attack from a Russian warplane led to the   
   chemical release, exposing residents to toxic fumes, in a city   
   with a normal population of 106,000, though many have fled from   
   the advance of Vladimir Putin’s forces.   
      
   The Russian Investigative Committee announced a criminal   
   investigation into the nitric acid release.   
      
   Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has replied by blasting   
   Moscow’s airstrikes in the frontline city as “madness.”   
      
   In his video address, he condemned the airstrikes in the city   
   but added he was not surprised by Russia’s attack.   
      
   “Given the presence of large-scale chemical production in   
   Severodonetsk, the Russian army’s strikes there, including blind   
   air bombing, are just madness,” he said.   
      
   “But on the 97th day of such a war, it is no longer surprising   
   that for the Russian military, for Russian commanders, for   
   Russian soldiers, any madness is absolutely acceptable.”   
      
   Meanwhile, Moscow claimed that Ukrainian forces hit a nitric   
   acid tank, triggering an explosion and release of the orange   
   fumes.   
      
   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.”   
      
   It comes as Putin demanded the city was captured by yesterday.   
      
   Both sides said Russian forces now controlled between a third   
   and half of the city – but Ukrainian forces are still resisting.   
      
   Russia’s separatist proxies acknowledged that capturing the city   
   was taking longer than hoped, despite one of the biggest ground   
   assaults of the war.   
      
   It comes as a bombshell report has revealed Putin could   
   sacrifice his own army in a bid for a hollow victory in Ukraine   
   to save his skin despite losing more than 30,000 troops.   
      
   A top secret analysis of the shambolic invasion says the Russian   
   dictator believes 30,350 of his troops are a “price worth   
   paying” for a small victory in eastern Ukraine.   
      
   But the new report – seen by senior UK government officials and   
   obtained by The Mirror – warns Putin’s blood sacrifice may be a   
   step too far for his troops.   
      
   Comments:   
      
   Tigers Blood   
   1 June, 2022   
      
   Ukraine is a sovereign nation. Ukraine should be free to go on   
   the offensive against Russia by using military equipment and   
   technology to hit targets within Russia.   
      
      
   Count Mario   
   1 June, 2022   
      
   As long as it is not paid for by the US Taxpayer....   
      
      
   Elias Thienpont   
   2 June, 2022   
      
   No, I am quite willing to halp pay for this, otherwise Russia   
   will eventually be on our doorstep.   
      
      
   Witchism   
   2 June, 2022   
      
   Well I'm NOT willing to help pay for something that WE helped   
   create in the first place.  You still don't know who the real   
   enemy is.   
      
      
   Elias Thienpont   
   2 June, 2022   
      
   Support the Ukraine! Increase sanctions on the USSR (er--   
   Russia). Let their be no win for Russia, and press sanctions   
   untill all of Ukraine is returned to its pre 2014 borders. Send   
   whatever weapons, and even forces into Ukraine that are   
   necessary to stop Russia.   
      
      
      
   United   
   1 June, 2022   
      
   Joe Biden "greelighted" the invasion in January.   
      
      
   obama's knee dummy   
   1 June, 2022   
      
   Remember obama and the Russian ambassador caught on a open mic   
   in 2012   
   "....when I am re-elected I will have the flexibility to get you   
   what you want..."   
   2014: Putin takes the Crimea and Donbas areas.   
      
      
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