“In total, due to the fires in the warehouses, Ukraine has already lost about half of the entire stock of strategic weapons,” said gazeta. ua military expert Oleg Zhdanov - Most of all outraged by the fact that Ichnya is not the first time. The same situation was with the warehouses in Balakley and Kalinovka.
How will the fire in the ammunition depot in Ichnya affect our defenses? What is lost?.
- It is necessary to conduct a comprehensive audit with the opening of each box. Consider it exploded, what's left. What the military really needs. In these warehouses were also stored ammunition, which had already been written off and was subject to disposal.. They belong not to the Ministry of Defense, but to the TASKO company.. She disposes at the storage site..
Who was punished for previous cases in the Ministry of Defense, the General Staff?.
- Relatively high management no information. Although, it may be a criminal and administrative punishment - for causing great losses to the state. It is known that they planted a sentry who was on duty during the explosions in the town of Svatovo.. However, everyone understands that they just hung up on others' sins.. He was not responsible for the proper storage of ammunition.. Also, one major paid a fine for fires in Kalinovka.
In the army, as in the state, acts of mutual responsibility. Therefore, no leader is punished..
They say that the head of the General Staff, Viktor Muzhenko, must resign because the department does not prevent incidents in warehouses.
- Send Muzhenko to resign - a little. Need to bring him to justice. In any civilized country, in the event of an emergency of this nature, always ask the head. He showed himself as an incompetent chief of the General Staff.. The state due to its negligence suffered serious losses. With the exception of Svatovo, where the fighting lasted for the time of the explosions, this is the third warehouse and the fourth fire.. The head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security and Defense, Sergey Pashinsky, said that in this way they lost armaments worth a billion dollars.
500 million hryvnia was allocated this year for storage of ammunition. Do they use this money effectively?.
- It is necessary to check how many funds have been used and what exactly. There is a clear instruction on the preservation of ammunition in warehouses.. Its implementation does not require millions of costs. The base can be renewed by the engineering battalion. Bounce back firefighters and firebreaks. Build normal towers and roads. Form units from guard dogs.
Put anti-aircraft machine guns and signal mines. It is written in the statute..
In addition to insufficient funding, what are the key reasons for not preventing such incidents?.
- First, impunity, which causes negligence. The head of the base in Balaklei Sergey Kravchenko recovered from his post. It also requires compensation in court for the time when it was not working.. Secondly - the corruption component. I do not exclude that the fire was organized to hide the shortage in the warehouse.