Newspeak Lessons? A Cloud of "Natural Gas" Covers Astrakhan

So the governor Igor Babushkin explained to the residents of Astrakhan the strange smell that they had complained about en masse.

"A cloud of natural gas, which has a specific odor, which appears after processing, — Babushkin explained. "The gas smell is due to the start-up of equipment at the Amangeldy Gas Processing Plant. Specialists are carrying out restoration work.".

Babushkin noted that the release of gas odor into the city is possible in the future.

"The commissioning work at the Aksaraysk plant is absolutely mind-blowing, causing a city of 500 to choke," "They should be paying for poisoning us and our children," "If emissions were minimal, we wouldn't be ahead of the rest of the world in terms of cancer rates.", — locals comment.

The day before, Ukrainian drones damaged a combined-cycle plant at a local gas processing plant. Afterward, Igor Babushkin stated that specialists were monitoring air quality every 20 minutes, and samples were within standards.

Meanwhile, local residents reported that it was very difficult to breathe in the city today.Asthmatics can't get the air out of their mouths. It's impossible to get through to 112." — noted one of the interlocutors of "Beware of the news."