Ukraine: Russian forces repeatedly bomb an ammonia pipeline in the Kharkov region
Russian forces have repeatedly fired on an ammonia pipeline in Ukraine's Kharkov region, a local governor said on Tuesday, a pipeline potentially crucial to the expansion of the agreement allowing the safe export of grain and fertilizer from Black Sea ports, Hotnews.ro reports.
Next month's extension of the Black Sea Grain Initiative, a pact struck in July 2022 to help manage the global food crisis, could depend on the pipeline reopening.
The ammonia pipeline, the world's longest, stretches some 2,470 kilometres from Togliatti in Russia on the Volga River to three ports on the Black Sea. It was closed after Moscow invaded Ukraine in February 2022.
No leaks were recorded after late Tuesday night's shelling that hit the pipeline near the village of Masiutivka and another shelling that took place overnight near the village of Zapadne, said Oleh Sinehubov, governor of the Kharkov region. "There is no threat to people's lives and health," Sinehubov said on Telegram.
