The cause of the fire at the oil depot near Kiev 80-90% of production is negligence, said the Minister of internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov.
"% 80-90 we still give to industrial negligence. If the process were probably mistakes made by employees, and the Fire started, "said Avakov, reports RIA" Novosti ".
before Tuesday, the Acting Head of the main Department of state service of Ukraine for emergency situations (SSES) Valery Boris reported that the fire at the oil depot in the Vasilkovsky district, Kiev region covered 3 of the tank 17 burning. Before that, it was claimed that almost all the equipment from a military airfield in Vasylkiv near the burning tank farm near Kiev evacuated. EMERCOM of Russia has offered assistance in extinguishing the fire at the oil depot near Kiev. We emphasize that a firefighter until now not managed to stop the fire at the oil depot in the Kiev region. Now Employees of gschs trying to prevent the fire from spreading to an adjacent tank farm, which is located at a distance of about 100 meters, and also resist fire in the surrounding forest. 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. Because of the fire alarmed fighters of the Ukrainian national guard. First it was claimed that kindled all 17 fuel tanks. In addition, in the area of fire was another base, and gas. Ukrainian media say that technology is sorely lacking, and no one fights fire, for fire to come close to you. On the given fact criminal case under the criminal code according to section 2 of article 273 of the criminal code of Ukraine (violation of safety rules in explosive factories or workshops in explosion). From the outset, the Ministry of internal Affairs of Ukraine reported that the probable Cause of the fire called a technical error When working with petroleum products. Later, the head adviser of the Ministry of internal Affairs of Ukraine Zoryan Shkiriak said that the fire could occur as a result of arson or violation of rules of storage of petroleum products. Arrived in the area of emergency the Secretary of the 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. In addition, it was claimed that under the threat of fire was located near the tank farm, the airstrip, the Ministry of defense of Ukraine.

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