President Kuchma opens ammunition recycling plant

Pryluky, Ichnia, Chernihiv region, 1995.

The airport in Pryluky, President Leonid Kuchma gets off the plane and is met by the commander of the Ukrainian Air Force Volodymyr Antonets.

President Leonid Kuchma, Defense Minister Valeriy Shmarov, US Ambassador to Ukraine William Green Miller, Chernihiv Regional Council Chairman Dmytro Shapoval, and other officials open an ammunition demilitarization facility near the town of Ichnia. The facility will be used to dispose of ammunition that has expired, as well as shells that are stored in inappropriate conditions.

Cutting of the red ribbon, flags of Ukraine, the United States, and the United Kingdom, ammunition conveyor, factory equipment, territory of the enterprise, journalists, and photojournalists.

Commentary: Valeriy Shmarov on the amount of ammunition in Ukraine; Leonid Kuchma on the need for such an enterprise, on an alternative draft law on power in Ukraine, on the idea of leftist forces to hold a referendum on the restoration of the USSR.

Kuchma also visits the village of Rudkivka and talks to local residents about the political situation in the country.