Warehouse with ammunition caught fire on Thursday evening in the precincts of the Ukrainian city of Svatovo in the Luhansk region, because of the fire began to explode ammunition, already damaged several dozen houses.
according to the Advisor to the head of the Ministry of internal Affairs of Ukraine Zorian Shkiryak, in the end PE lost their lives 2 persons and another three were injured. The Ukrainian General staff informs 2 received damage soldiers, one crazy and one missing.
Due to the extreme fire danger until not have the opportunity to begin to fire: according to the final data, explosion has only intensified.
SBU opened a case under the criminal code of the terrorist attack. According to the head of the Luhansk region George Tuck, a military facility on fire after it had been made two shots from a flare gun. However, he did not disclose who did it.
Deputy Chairman of the military-civil administration of Luhansk oblast Yuri Klimenko have said before, that fire at the warehouse was more than 3, 5 thousand tons of ammunition.
Amidst exploding ammunition, according to the state service for emergency situations, there is ammunition for reactive systems of volley fire "Hurricane" caliber 220 mm.
"the warehouses began to explode shells for "Hurricane" (reactive systems of volley fire caliber 220 mm). For this reason, the rescuers still don't have the ability to start fire fighting, " said the Agency in the duty of SSES.
Tuka declared that to repay the warehouses in practice impossible, and the only way is to wait till all burnt out.
"regarding the explosions, at the present time, God forbid, like the intensity of explosions has decreased, but it is currently impossible to say with certainty, because ignite may at any time
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