The local authorities hid information.
On the night of April 5, the Governor of the Samara region announced that drones attacked one of the enterprises in Chapaevsk. Local residents, the media and observers wrote that the factory for the production of explosives of Promsintez JSC had been attacked. Also, the impact and subsequent fire at the enterprise have already been confirmed by satellite images.
As ASTRA found out, drones hit a tank with diluted nitric acid (the exact concentration is unknown). There was a leak of one ton of acid, ASTRA sources in the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation reported. The nitric acid was neutralized with soda, and the leak was eliminated. In addition to the tank with diluted nitric acid, two production halls were hit — the roofs of the workshops burned down.
According to open data, nitric acid is actively used in the production of explosives — it is one of the key components in the chemistry of explosives. Even diluted it is dangerous both for humans and the environment — it corrodes tissues, its vapors are toxic, the soil burns out at the site of the spill — plants and microorganisms die.
The Promsintez plant, as reported by ASTRA, was previously attacked on March 22, and the drone then hit the roof of a workshop building, after which the roof caught fire.
Promsintez Joint Stock Company was established in February 1997 in Chapaevsk, Samara region, on the basis of Polymer OJSC as an enterprise for the production of explosives, RBC wrote. According to the company’s website, Promsintez is the successor of the Samara Sergievsky Explosives Plant, founded in 1911 by the Military Council under the Military Ministry of the Russian Empire and today is one of the main manufacturers of industrial explosives in Russia and the CIS.The company produces various explosives from nitrobenzene to ready-made TNT blocks intended for open and underground mining, blasting operations in the faces and workings of mines and mines.
