A fire broke out again at the gunpowder factory in Perm (FKP "Perm Powder Factory"), as a result, two people died, another person was injured. This is reported by the Telegram channel "112". This plant makes charges for Grad and Smerch multiple launch rocket systems, air defense systems and other combat weapons that Russia uses in the war in Ukraine.
According to the channel, the fire occurred in a building with the production of plastics on an area of 20 square meters, firefighters have already extinguished the fire.
Updated: TASS, citing a source, also reports a fire at the plant.
The last time a fire at the Perm gunpowder factory was reported was on May 1, when there were also two dead. At the production site No. 12 of Plastmassy, products were allegedly on fire. Before the fire, local residents heard an explosion, Ekho Perm reported. Before that, a fire broke out at another enterprise of the Ministry of Defense: on April 21, at the Central Research Institute of the Aerospace Defense Forces in Tver, about 30 people were injured as a result of a fire, 17 were killed . The cause of the fire was called the emergency state of the power grid, a criminal case was initiated on the fact of violation of fire safety. On the same day, the Dmitrievsky chemical plant in the city of Kineshma, Ivanovo Region, was on fire . During the fire, a hangar with flammable substances collapsed. One person was hurt.
Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, fires have been occurring at the facilities of the Military-Industrial Complex (MIC) of the Russian Ministry of Defense. The cause of the fires is called a violation of fire safety rules, in some cases even preliminary versions are not disclosed. The Insider published a compilation of all known incidents.