Novobohdanivka: repeated explosions in warehouses

Novobohdanivka: repeated explosions in warehouses

2005, 10 min

July 25, 2005, Novobohdanivka village, Melitopol district, Zaporizhzhia region.

Video of repeated explosions at military ammunition depots a year after the first accident. Employees of the State Tax Service and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, a military unit, a checkpoint, military in a helicopter, flying over Novobohdanivka and the destroyed military depots, fire trucks, an MOE tent, military near the tents and on the territory of the military unit, a document on the elimination of the fire, the streets of the village.

Comments: representatives of the military and the Ministry of Internal Affairs; local residents, eyewitnesses.

For reference: The Novobohdanivka artillery depot disaster was a man-made accident that occurred in May 2004 in the village of Novobohdanivka, Melitopol district, Zaporizhzhia region. In 2005, a second explosion occurred, although its scale was smaller. As a result, 5 people were killed, and residential and other buildings in Novobohdanivka and nearby settlements were heavily damaged. The explosions temporarily halted road and rail transportation in the region.