by Andriy Perun Agence France-Presse KALYNIVKA, Ukraine – Ukrainian authorities evacuated more than 30,000 people Wednesday from the central Vinnytsia region after a huge arms depot storing missiles caught fire and exploded in what prosecutors said was a possible act of “sabotage.” It was the second major incident affecting a large Ukrainian weapons storage site this year. Kiev had blamed a deadly March munitions blast on Moscow and its Russian-backed insurgents fighting Ukrainian forces in the war-wracked east. […]
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Ukraine struggles to contain arms depot fire, blames ‘sabotage’
by Sergiy BOBOK with Dmitry GORSHKOV in Kiev Agence France-Presse YAKOVENKOVE, Ukraine – Ukraine said Thursday that a fire raging at a munitions depot in the country’s east, which the military blamed on an “act of sabotage”, could continue for up to a week. “We can evaluate everything as the intensity of the fire decreases,” Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said in televised comments. “This can take up to one week.” Groysman said 550 emergency workers, […]





