The Togliatti-Odessa ammonia pipeline was damaged on Monday, May 30, and a small leak developed, according to Ukraine’s Head of Donetsk Regional Military Administration Pavlo Kyrylenko, as reported by Interfax-Ukraine and other media outlets. Kyrylenko said this branch of the pipeline had been closed since 2014.
The 7.5 kilometer section of pipeline, however, still contained an estimated 250 mt of ammonia. A cloud was moving above the soil from the village of Maiske towards Bakhmut. The cloud had an estimated radius of four kilometers. Officials notified the local population. There was no information about injuries or casualties.
Ukrinform, a Ukrainian news platform, attributed the damage to actions by Russian forces.