A 50-year-old driver has been detained in Kyiv after patrol police revealed two grenade launchers, grenades, and boxes full of cartridges in his van during a routine inspection, the Kyiv PD press service has told UNIAN.
On Monday, August 21, joint investigative efforts by Kyiv regional prosecutor's office and the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) led to locating a cache filled with weapons and ammunition outside a village in the Kyiv region’s Baryshev district on the territory of non-residential premises.
The threat of terrorist attacks in big cities across Ukraine is growing on the eve of Independence Day, as evidenced by the numerous instances of disclosure of terrorists' plots by Ukraine’s security services, TSN Tyzden weekly report says.
State-owned Joint-Stock Company Artem and the state-owned Spectehnoexport, both part of Ukraine’s major arms manufacturing holding Ukroboronprom, will cooperate on the ammunition production program with Turkey-based Makina ve Kimya Endüstrisi Kurumu (MKEK), according to Ukroboronprom press service.
Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security and Defense Serhiy Pashynskiy spoke about the losses caused by a fire at Ukraine's largest military munitions depot in the town of Balaklia, Kharkiv region.