Chemical weapons depot declared safe from Russian forest fires
Moscow, 17 May: The forest fire in Kurgan Region is not a direct danger to the chemical weapons depot near Shchuchye
yet, said Maj-Gen Nikolay Bezborodov, who is a member of the State Commission on Chemical Disarmament and a Duma deputy
from Kurgan Region.
"The fire zone is at least 80 km away from the depot and there is no direct danger to it. The area around the
depot is under strict control," he told Interfax-Military News Agency.
[Passage omitted] The depot in Shchuchye, where a facility for the disposal of Russian chemical munitions is being
built, stores about 2,000 artillery projectiles and missiles that contain about 5.5 t of nerve gases such as sarin,
soman and VX. [Passage omitted]
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