Drones hit one of Russia's largest chemical plants in Novomoskovsk – photos and video
Drones attacked the Azot chemical plant in the Russian city of Novomoskovsk in Tula Oblast on the night of 27-28 October, sparking a fire at the facility.
Source: monitoring Telegram channels Exilenova+ and Supernova+; Tula Oblast Governor Dmitry Milyaev
Quote from Exilenova+: "Novomoskovsk, Tula Oblast: the Azot chemical plant has been attacked. A fire has broken out at the facility as a result of the attack."
Details: An open-source intelligence (OSINT) analysis of photos and videos posted by local residents suggested that the fire had most likely broken out in the plant's AM-70 ammonia production unit.
Milyaev confirmed there had been a drone attack on Tula Oblast, specifically mentioning damage to infrastructure in the industrial zone of Novomoskovsk.
According to Exilenova+, Azot is part of the EuroChem group and is one of Russia's largest producers of nitrogen fertilisers. The plant produces ammonia, ammonium nitrate, urea and methanol.
Azot is significant to Russia's defence industry because, according to Ukraine's Foreign Intelligence Service, it supplies nitric acid to the Sverdlov plant in Dzerzhinsk, which produces explosives.
Background:
- This was not the first drone attack on Azot. Drones also hit the plant in June.
- A fire also broke out at a steelworks in the Russian city of Lipetsk on the night of 27-28 October following an attack involving jet-powered weapons.
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