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Group DF, diversified international group of companies founded by Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash, has said that grass is burning outside the Stirol facility in Horlivka, Donetsk region, but there is no fire inside the building proper.

“There is no fire at Stirol, grass is burning at a nearby territory –
on a country land plot,” a Group DF spokesperson told Interfax-Ukraine
on July 29. He says Group DF removed all hazardous chemical substances from the plant well beforehand.

The Horlivka City Council said earlier that a fire broke out in the
machinery room at the Stirol chemical plant as a result of rocket fire
and that the fire has now been put out.