Smoke without fire: Ukraine denies the explosion at a plant that the United States did not allow to be sold to China
The Ministry of Emergency Situations of Ukraine has denied reports on social networks about an explosion at the Motor Sich plant in Zaporozhye. An emergency actually occurred at the enterprise - due to ground subsidence, a brick structure collapsed and collapsed onto the territory of a neighboring private house.
Eyewitnesses mistook the loud sound of the collapse for an explosion. Specialists are currently working on site. There were no injuries, the local publication Industrialka reported, citing the Zaporozhye department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations.
Information about the explosion began to spread after a post on Facebook by Zaporozhye resident Denis Nechiporenko. “Eyewitnesses say it looks like an explosion, but no fragments are visible (it’s very dark there). The fence is scattered within a radius of 10-15 meters,” he wrote about the incident at Motor Sich.
Motor Sich produces aircraft engines and has a number of unique technologies, including those of late Soviet origin, to which China gained access by acquiring a stake in the enterprise at the end of 2019. The US tried to sabotage the deal. Along with the purchase of shares, the Chinese pledged to invest $250 million in the plant over two years.
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