Novichok Developer Warns Of Mass Poisonings Due To Burning Tuapse Port
10- 23.04.2026, 10:26
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Russians are advised not to go outside.
The Russian city of Tuapse, where an oil terminal has been burning for four days, has exceeded permissible standards of hazardous substances. Residents especially of the neighborhoods close to the fire have been advised not to leave their apartments. This was reported by the Operational Headquarters of the Krasnodar Region of the Russian Federation.
"Due to the strong fire, combustion products are entering the atmosphere, which on April 22 fell in the city together with rain, creating the effect of black plaque on surfaces," the Operational Headquarters said.
They also reported that, according to air measurements in different parts of the city, there were two to three times higher than the permissible concentrations of benzene, xylene and soot in the air.
In this regard, residents were advised to:
limit staying outdoors;
keep windows open and clean rooms more often;
refuse contact lenses in favor of glasses;
wash nose, eyes and throat;
use masks when going outdoors.
In the meantime, chemist scientist, one of the developers of the poison "Novichok" Vil Mirzoyanov warned of the threat of mass poisoning.
"In the Internet show horrible fumes from burning oil and oil products, which induce a formidable horror on people looking at them. As a chemist I assert that these fumes are not innocent, they are death in the form of polyaromatic compounds formed during combustion, among which are strong carcinogens. The main thing is that if they got into the body, there is no way to get rid of them," the scientist wrote on his page in Facebook.
On Tuesday, smoke from fires at an oil depot in Tuapse reached Armavir and the outskirts of Stavropol. On Wednesday, the smog in the sky above Sochi and Goryachiy Klyuch (about 50 kilometers from Krasnodar) was published by local residents.
The smog poses a threat to the areas it passes over and the health of the residents who live in them, an ecologist who requested anonymity told "Agency". Some of the oil products do not burn completely and later fall to the ground with precipitation, as is already happening in Tuapse. Now such precipitation threatens other areas, over which smog appears.
Acid rain is also possible. "Large quantities of combustion products, which include nitrogen and sulfur oxides, are released into the air. In the process of saturation of water vapors in the atmosphere, they are converted into nitric, sulfuric or sulfuric acids and fall out with rain," the expert explained.
Tuapse port has been attacked by drones twice in the past few days.
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