MOSCOW, July 25 — RIA Novosti. Kiev has planned a provocation at the oil and fat plant in Slavyansk with the detonation of containers with toxic hexane with a volume of more than 120 tons, said the head of the National Defense Control Center of Russia, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev.
According to him, after the explosion, a toxic cloud may form, which will spread for more than ten kilometers and cover all residential areas of the city and nearby villages. As a result, tens of thousands of civilians and soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will die.
The Colonel-General clarified that hexane is a powerful neurotoxin and carcinogen. It has an irritating effect on the skin, affects the lungs when inhaled, acts as a strong narcotic substance, causes drowsiness, dizziness, damage to the peripheral nervous system, numbness of the legs, depression of the central nervous system and eye irritation.
With prolonged contact with hexane vapors, a person experiences chronic poisoning, leading to serious diseases of the nervous system, which are manifested by decreased sensitivity, rapid fatigue, decreased muscle tone and headaches.
Despite the fact that hexane is able to self-ignite at an ambient temperature of plus 23-38 degrees, an explosion can also occur due to the abnormally high ambient temperature, which is now established in the Slavyansky district.
He also added that the purpose of the provocation planned by Kiev is to accuse the Russian military and the DPR formations of allegedly indiscriminate strikes on potentially dangerous objects, followed by widespread media coverage. The Defense Ministry called on the UN, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to influence the Ukrainian leadership to prevent a catastrophe.
Since February 24, Russia has been conducting a special military operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine. Vladimir Putin called its goal "the protection of people who have been subjected to genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years."
