The head of the MIA of Ukraine Arsen Avakov said Wednesday that the Experts pushing the safe option of fighting the fire at the oil depot in the Kiev region, for example, they propose to give to completely burn the fuel tanks.

"Specialists are pushing the safe option is to localize the fire and allow to burn out. Don't want to pay for the lives of firefighters for playfulness extinguish ", - Avakov wrote in his own microblog on Twitter. Before Wednesday, the Head of the Ukrainian interior Ministry said that four containers burned down completely. On Tuesday evening, the Ukrainian media reported that the Fire at the oil depot near Kiev, as if it has increased, you have a new source of fire, increased fire area. However, the rescuers, these data are Not confirmed. The mayor of the Ukrainian capital Vitali Klitschko reported that the level of air pollution in Kiev because of a fire at the oil depot preiselbeeren permissible limits, in the city introduced a number of restrictions. Before this, at the scene of the fire at the oil depot near Kiev found the bodies of three firefighters. So, the death toll rose to five. The fire at the oil depot "BRSM-oil" in the village Cracki Kiev region erupted on the evening of the first day of the week. On Tuesday morning, rescuers said about the explosion. Kindled all 17 fuel tanks. By Monday evening, the overwhelming number of them turned out to put out. Secretary of Council of national security and defense of Ukraine Oleksandr Turchynov said that burning the oil depot was under investigation, and the real volume of petroleum products unknown.

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