President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko announced the construction of 15 modern arsenals, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“This year we have planned to begin construction of 15 modern storage facilities with modern automatic security, fire safety and warning systems, which reduce the human factor to almost zero,” he said on Thursday during a visit to the Khmelnitsky region, where the interethnic Clear Sky exercises are taking place -2018".
At the same time, Poroshenko admitted that the country currently does not have a single modern warehouse for storing military arsenal.
Earlier, Ukrainian Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak said that the construction of such arsenals requires 500 million hryvnia annually for 15 years.
Let us recall, as PolitNavigator previously reported, on the night of Tuesday, a fire and ammunition explosions started at an arsenal near the city of Ichnya, Chernihiv region.