Residual fuel continues to burn in the same tank at the tank farm in the Kiev region, on a place rescuers have evacuated more than 2, 5 thousand cubic meters of fuel, informs on Tuesday morning, the state service of Ukraine for emergency situations (SSES).

"as of 07. 00 hours (time coincides with Moscow time) on June 16, continues burning the remaining fuel in the tank with a volume of 900 cubic meters in the bottom of the container. Monitoring and supervision burnup fuel ", - is informed in the report.

in place continues pumping diesel fuel from 2 tanks tank farm " BRSM-Oil in tanks adjacent to the tank farm CLO, only pumped for 2 520 thousand cubic meters of fuel.


on the fire place for the execution of work are 38 pieces of various mechanisms and 100 people.

The fire at the oil depot "BRSM-Oil" in the village Cracki Vasilkovsky district erupted on the evening of 8 June - lit fuel tank with a volume of 650 tons. On next day morning filled tanks began to explode one after another.

upon ignition of several criminal cases, among the versions of causes of the fire are considered, and among them, the negligence of employees, arson and sabotage. According to the summary data, the number of received damage is 20 people, four of them died on the spot, one died in the hospital.

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