Rescuers have evacuated more than half of the fuel From the tank farm, which was kept in Kiev region for more than a week, informs on Wednesday, the state service of Ukraine for emergency situations (SSES).

The fire at the oil depot occurred on 8 June, followed by explosions and strong haze, it was not completely extinguished until yesterday. Yesterday, the state emergency service said that the Fire at the oil depot eliminated. Upon ignition of several criminal cases, among the causes of the fire are considered, among them negligence of employees, arson and sabotage. For final reports, four people died on the spot, one died in hospital.

"Work continues on the transfer of residues of diesel fuel in three tanks tank farms BRYU in the tank farm tanks CLO (neighboring base - ed.). From the 5th tank with a volume of 900 cubic meters of diesel fuel is completely drained. According to the tank farm CLO Only pumped 3 152 thousand cubic meters of fuel. Only remained to pump out more than 2 thousand cubic meters ", - informs the SSES.

is performed on the surveillance and control of the fire situation.

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