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🦅💥 Uralkhim Azot. A local resident claims to have seen 5 UAVs flying, 3 of which hit the factory, 1 was shot down, and another allegedly hit a house.
"Their are a number of potash mines in the area (general term for potassium compounds), used for fertilizers, many household products, fuels and explosives, including potassium nitrate. While modern explosives use other compounds, potassium nitrate is a key component in classic black powder, fireworks, and solid rocket propellants.
The Azot Branch of Uralchem is the only Russian producer of higher aliphatic amines, sodium nitrate, and crystalline sodium nitrite. The main products of Azot are ammonium nitrate, ammonia aqueous solution, ammonia water, urea, nitric acid, and nitrite/nitrate salts."
Ammonium nitrate was used in the Oklahoma City bombing.
Ukraine is targeting the refineries, pipelines, and related O&G facilities that generate revenue and fuel their economy, and cars and trucks.
The strike on the plant making electrical connectors and products and this strike on the Azot specialty chemical plant is pretty muy bueno.
Ukraine is not only blowing up the finished weapons, they are blowing up the primary components on the weapons.