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Analytical supplement to the article “Fires at Russian refineries: a chemical war with a delayed detonator” Introduction A spatial-dynamic model of an oil fire shows what falls out of the plume, where, and in what form during oil combustion; what “oil rain” actually is—and how dangerous it really is for

Vladyslav Balinskyi, biologist and journalist, Zeleny Lyst (Green Leaf) 27 April 2026 On 8 June 2024, I was standing on Sobachyi beach listening to frogs. The Kakhovka dam had been blown up two days earlier. From that moment I tracked the movement of the surface plume — and on the

Владислав Балінський, біолог і журналіст, «Зелений лист» 27 квітня 2026 р. 8 червня 2024 року я стояв на Собачому пляжі і слухав, як квакають жаби. Каховську дамбу підірвали двома днями раніше. З того моменту я відстежував рух поверхневого шлейфу — і 8-го він досяг Одеси. Повз мене проплавали дахи будинків,

The string of fires and explosions at Russia’s oil-refining facilities in 2024–2026 has become a phenomenon that goes beyond mere military statistics. This is chemical warfare with a delayed effect, where every Ukrainian Armed Forces strike on Russian oil infrastructure sets off a chain of long-term contamination. We are witnessing

Ahead of the 40th anniversary of the catastrophe, Zeleny List journalist Hlib Yehorov travelled to the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone on 22–23 April. There he recorded exclusive conversations with two specialists who deal with the consequences of the worst technogenic disaster in human history every working day — Serhii Bokov, shift