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Residents of the city are seriously concerned about the situation around the facility where rocket fuel is stored. It turned out that the state stopped financing the program of its disposal. The remnants of ballistic missiles, according to Leonid Shyman, general director of the plant, could explode, causing a man-made and environmental disaster in this and four neighboring regions. Svitlana Shaperenko has been living in Pavlohrad for 44 years...is sure: the city is on the verge of existence and actual death. "If we already have a strategic facility in a city with a large amount of explosive fuel, then in...

The massive explosion and ensuing shock wave seen in video from the Ukrainian city of Pavlograd in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast was most likely the result of a giant secondary detonation. What seems to have been hit... was a plant that is used for missile fuel and other highly volatile explosive applications. The facility has been a cause of great concern for locals in the past. The city is strategically located in an area through which that counteroffensive drive toward Crimea could take place... But it is also home to the Pavlograd Chemical Plant. That’s where fuel for Ukrainian missiles is produced......