“The interdepartmental commission to investigate the unusual detonation of 120 mm mines found that the main causes of the incidents were a decrease in temperature and increased humidity. Source: Member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence Fedir Venislavskyi in a comment to “Suspilno” Details: The People’s Deputy confirmed that a number of abnormal activations of mines, which were supplied by certain manufacturers for the security and defense sector, were detected.”, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
The interdepartmental commission to investigate the unusual detonation of 120 mm mines found that the main causes of the incidents were a decrease in temperature and increased humidity.
Source: member of the Verkhovna Rada’s Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence Fedir Venislavskyi in a comment to “Suspilno”
Details: The People’s Deputy confirmed that a number of abnormal activations of mines, which were supplied by certain manufacturers for the security and defense sector, were detected.
Direct speech: “An interdepartmental commission was formed, which included representatives of the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Strategic Industry, and representatives of the components of the security and defense sector. The commission found out the reasons. The relevant report of this commission was sent to the Committee on National Security and Development. I cannot disclose the details, but in general It was found that the main reasons are a decrease in temperature and increased humidity. In dry weather, these mines did not produce any crashes”.
Details: According to Venislavskyi, all mines from the batch were recalled to the factory, and the manufacturer undertook to supply new mines in the near future instead of the withdrawn ones, and they “will undergo a thorough additional examination.” “I will not name the number of mines. These are all the mines of the batch that had an abnormal detonation. The number is confidential information. The company is already fulfilling its obligations to replace these mines,” said the People’s Deputy.
According to him, determining whether this is an offense is the job of law enforcement agencies. “To say that the plant was manufacturing incorrectly is a serious enough accusation, let the law enforcement agencies deal with it,” said Venislavskyi.
At the same time, he emphasized that there are no systemic problems with ammunition. “There are a number of factors related to the conditions of manufacture and storage. All these reasons are in the report of the commission. There are no systemic problems with this situation, but in the future more attention will be paid to checking the quality of mines, conditions of manufacture, storage and use,” said the People’s Deputy .
According to Venislavskyi, the facts with the freelance detonation of mines began in November.
In one of the brigades working in the Pokrovsky direction, Suspilnyi confirmed information about such incidents, in particular in November. According to the source, all cases really happened with mines of the same batch.
One of the officials of the Ministry of Defense told “Suspilno” that they received hundreds of thousands of ammunition from the manufacturer, and problems arose with one batch. At the same time, the examination will take some time, since there are many sub-manufacturers of ammunition.
What preceded:
- Earlier, the Ministry of Defense stated that it was actively investigating the reasons for the supply of low-quality 120 mm mines to the front.
- Recently, information began to circulate about 120-mm mines that either do not fly out of the barrel, or do not explode, or deviate from the aiming point by hundreds of meters. Journalists Yulia Kiriyenko and Yuriy Butusov drew attention to the problem.