URALCHEM

These are plants that Ukraine says both make ingredients that support Russia's military industrial complex: nitrogen and ammonia, things used for fertilizer, also used for explosives.

The two plants are the Metafrax Chemicals Plant and an Azot branch of Uralchem.

Now, what's interesting is who owns these.

It appears that the strikes have hit a water purification system.

Russchem is controlled by a man called Arkady Rotenberg, sanctioned by the United Kingdom.

Uh, his brother, Boris, also sanctioned, but Arkady, interesting because he, for many years, was Vladimir Putin's judo partner, who simultaneously made a fortune in petrochemicals.

Uralchem, owned by Dmitry Mazepin.

He is, according to Swiss and European sanctions, in the closest circle of Vladimir Putin, and those sanctions came to that conclusion, I'm sure, based on various, uh, perhaps secret intelligence reports, but also because, uh, Mazepin was at a meeting that took place in the Kremlin on the 24th of February 2022, the day of the invasion, in which President Putin discussed how these companies were going to cope and respond to sanctions.