Ukraine accidents news

13/08/2008
Ukrainian People's Party held picket near Russian Embassy in Kyiv. Representatives of the party demanded to withdraw Russian troops from Georgia, stop supporting separatists and using ships of the Russian Black Sea Fleet that are based in Sevastopol in military actions in the conflict zone.
A respective statement was handed over to the embassy's worker. "We are viewing the actions of Russian authorities in Georgia as an aggression against a sovereign state jeopardizing peace and stability not only in the Caucasian region, but also in the entire Europe," MP Ivan Zayets said. The embassy's envoy, Vsevolod Loskutov, in turn, described the picket as an offense given to Russia. "We are protecting South Ossetia, Russian citizens and Russian peacekeepers," he stated, adding that around 2,000 Russian citizens have been killed in South Ossetia. He accused the Georgian president of this. Participants in the picket then headed to the Georgian Embassy in Ukraine to express their support and solidarity. Similar pickets of Russian consulates in Ukraine also took place in Lviv and Odesa.

29/07/2008
Ukraine's president declared Monday a three-month state of emergency in western Ukraine, where 22 people, including six children, have been killed by floods in the past week.
More than 40,000 homes have been flooded and thousands of people evacuated as a result, according to the Ukrainian emergencies ministry.

14/06/2008
A Moscow-bound bus from Chisinau has overturned on a road near Lake Krasnoye (red) in Chernigov Region, killing four people and injuring 20, the press service of the Ukraine Ministry for Emergencies has announced.
There were about 30 passengers in the bus, mostly Moldova citizens.

25/05/2008
Eleven people were killed in Ukraine late on Friday evening when a minibus crashed into a truck, the country's emergencies ministry said on Saturday.
The accident occurred on the highway between Chop in western Ukraine and the capital, Kiev.
Ten passengers of the minibus died along with the vehicle's driver. The driver of the truck has been hospitalized with stomach wounds, the ministry said.

29/04/2008
A Ukrainian helicopter crashed onto an offshore drilling platform in the Black Sea on Monday, killing all 20 people on board.
Nineteen people were killed on impact and one initially survived, but he later died from his injuries. No one on the platform was injured.
The platform, on the West coast off the Crimea, is operated by state energy firm Naftogaz, which also owned the helicopter.
The transport and communications minister, Yosip Vinsky said the cause of the accident was still being investigated, adding "Judging by the logic of the initial information, most likely there was a human factor".

25/04/2008
A Ukrainian ship that sunk after a collision with a Chinese vessel near Hong Kong on March 22 is expected to be pulled to the surface on April 26.
Seven of the 25 crewmembers were rescued in the South China Sea, and divers found three bodies. Fifteen have yet to be found.
Earlier attempts to pull the Naftogaz-67 tugboat to shallow waters failed, as the mast is embedded seven meters into the seabed, fixing the 2,723-ton vessel.
"Preparations for pulling up the Ukrainian vessel Naftogaz-67 are ongoing. The operation to lift the Naftogaz-67 has been postponed until Saturday, April 26," the ministry said in a statement.
The operation had been scheduled for April 24.

5/04/2008
Ukraine's coast guards have detained a Turkish fishing vessel whose crew failed to show authorization to enter the country's economic zone.
"At about 9 a.m. [14 GMT] on Friday, April 4, the Ukrainian coast guard ship Podillya discovered the fishing vessel Ozgur 50 miles to the southeast of Zmeiny Island in Ukraine's economic zone. After being ordered to stop, the schooner stopped and a supervision group boarded it."
According to preliminary data, the 15-meter schooner with four crew and a captain was registered at an Istanbul port. Two trawls and dry ice were discovered in holds, but no fish.
Turkey's coast guard, the office of the Turkish embassy's military attache, and coast guard services of Black Sea states have been informed of the incident.

3/04/2008
Three people have been killed by a train that hit them on tracks outside Ukraine's capital, Kiev.
Authorities cite witnesses as saying the victims, two men and a woman in their 20s, were drunk, and that the men tried to stop the woman when she threatened to throw herself under the oncoming train during an argument.
The Transport Ministry says in a statement that the train driver tried to prevent the accident by sounding an emergency alarm, but the victims did not react. All three were fatally injured.
Train accidents are frequent in Ukraine. Pedestrians often violate safety rules and cross railways where it is prohibited.
Officials say more than 740 people were killed in train accidents last year in the ex-Soviet republic.

27/03/2008
Ukraine’s Mi-8 helicopter of the national border guard service crashed into the Black Sea on Thursday, the chief of the Emergency Situations Ministry’s press-service, Igor Krol said. The helicopter carried thirteen people. One was found alive. The others remain unaccounted for.
According to the official, the helicopter of the state border guard service carrying a crew of three and ten passengers (twelve officers and one civilian) left the airport of Odessa for Zmeiny island at 12:06 Moscow time. Its arrival was expected at 12:45 Moscow time. It failed to reach the final destination.

23/03/2008
A small plane has crashed in Ukraine killing all three people on board.
Emergency Situations Ministry spokesman Ihor Krol says the plane went down at about 3:40 p.m (1340 GMT) Sunday some 40 (25 miles) west of the capital Kiev. The pilot and two passengers were killed.
Krol says pilot error or a technical failure was the likely cause of the crash.

15/03/2008
A Ukrainian court has convicted three former police officers of the killing of investigative journalist Heorhiy Gongadze more than seven years ago. Mykola Protasov was handed a 13-year sentence on March 15, while Valeriy Kostenko and Oleksandr Popovich each received 12-year sentences. Gongadze, who published articles about official corruption in his online newspaper "Ukrainska pravda," was a critic of former Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma.
He disappeared in September 2000 and his headless body was found in a forest outside Kyiv two months later. Oleksiy Pukach, the former head of the Interior Ministry's surveillance department, is also wanted in connection with the killing. He is being sought on an international warrant. After years of investigation, police have not tracked down those who ordered Gongodze's killing.

25/02/2008
Ukraine state committee for industrial safety, labor protection and mining supervision has banned mining works at Coalmine No.222 that belongs to Karbon coal company.
The report said Mr Leonid Marchenko, an adhoc commission with chairman of the committee’s territorial department, is investigating causes of the accident involving a group of people.
A militarized mining rescue team is working on the site and the mining site is being examined.

15/02/2008
Chief of the State Traffic Police Department at the Interior Ministry of Ukraine Serhiy Kolomiyets denies the scuffle between the traffic police and Berkut special police detachment employees in a restaurant in Uzhhorod city.
The traffic police chief stressed that the information, disseminated by mass media, does not correspond to reality.
“There was no scuffle between the traffic police and Berkut employees”, he stressed.

13/02/2008
A Ukrainian passenger plane ran out of runway at Istanbul`s Ataturk Airport.
The Airbus A-320 plane belonging to Donbassaero Airlines stopped at the end of the runaway after it landed at Ataturk Airport.
The plane got out of the runway when it was heading for the taxi area.
Technicians checked the plane and found no damages.
The plane was en route from Donetsk, Ukraine to Istanbul.
Donbassaero is an airline based in Donetsk that operates domestic and international scheduled services. Mediterranean city of Antalya, Aegean town of Dalaman, and Istanbul are among its international lines that also include Athens, Aleppo, Barcelona, Baku, Beirut, Dubai, Milan, Moscow, Munich, Tbilisi, Tel Aviv and Vienna.

3/02/2008
At least 10 convicts at a Ukrainian prison have declared a hunger strike in protest against allegedly brutal and humiliating treatment by the jail's administration, Ukrainian television said, citing a local human rights group.
One of the accusations was that prison staff had been beating them, Fifth Channel said, citing the Vinnytsya Human Rights Group.
Group chairman Dmytro Hroisman said complaints came in late in 2007 that inmates at the jail, which is located in Lityn, Vinnytsya region, had been kept in metal cages for more than 24 hours running.
"It is even said that the head of the prison has regularly been taking part in beatings personally, and there is written evidence to that effect by convicts, which must be verified," Hroisman said.

23/12/2007
Ukraine’s deadliest mine in 2007, Zasyadko, claimed another victim on Sunday as a miner died during repair work related to an earlier methane explosion.
Industry experts attribute the high number of deaths in Donetsk and surrounding regions to the necessity to exploit coal seams that are one kilometer or more below ground level. Moreover, miners are less likely to complain about safety violations since they receive relatively high wages – averaging about $1,000 per month – with their incomes tied to production rates. 25/12/2007

30/11/2007
A crocodile that escaped from a travelling circus in Ukraine and evaded capture for six months died on Friday after two days back in captivity.
Ministry officials, unsure whether the crocodile was comatose or dead, had earlier called in a vet to examine the reptile. Nicknamed Godzilla or Godzi, it was captured alive this week after escaping from a travelling circus in May. 1/12/2007

17/10/2007
Donetsk regional council has transferred UAH 300,000 of financial aid to the victims of gas explosion in Dnipropetrovsk apartment block. Earlier the state emergency fund allocated UAH 5 million to eliminate the consequences of the gas explosion. In connection with this tragedy, President Viktor Yushchenko declared October 16 a Day of National Mourning and Sorrow.

10/05/2007
Three people died and 17 were rushed to hospital because of an accident at Krasnolymanska mine in Donetsk region. This was announced by Oleh Runezhak, head of the government commission investigating the accident, who is also a deputy chair of the regional department for industrial security, labor protection and mine supervision. Under the latest reports, the accident was caused by a sudden methane discharge.

26/04/2007
A massive fire in the Ukraine ripped through one of Kiev's metro stations. In fact, plumes of black smoke could be seen from miles away. The fire also brought traffic in and around the station to a standstill. It took more than two dozen fire trucks to bring the flames under control.

22/04/2007
Ukraine's security service said that two suspects have been arrested in connection with last month's brazen assassination of a Russian businessman outside a courthouse. Maxim Kurochkin, a millionaire who owned vast properties in Ukraine, was shot in the heart on March 27 as he stepped out of a Kiev courthouse where he was on trial for extortion. He was arrested in November on charges of extortion after he allegedly demanded US$10,000, a one-room apartment and a plasma TV from an acquaintance, according to Ukrainian media. Kurochkin denied the accusations and said the case against him was fabricated.

14/04/2007
Neo-Nazis attacked an Egyptian diplomat in the Ukrainian capital Kiev and the Ukrainian government has said it deeply regrets the incident. A group of 12 people assaulted the diplomat, counsellor Khaled Nader, in the city centre as part of a series of attacks on foreigners by racist groups. As soon as he heard the news, Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit told the Egyptian embassy in Kiev to make a formal protest. The Ukrainian foreign ministry said it regretted the attack on the diplomat and the authorities are trying to identify his attackers.

4/02/2007
Ukrainian helicopters conduct transport operations on the territory of Pakistan at the present time. The certified maintenance base has been established in Abbotabad where our flight team has been settled. To bring relief to those suffering of the earthquake consequences, our crews often conduct their flights in bad weather conditions and land on unprepared areas in the mountains showing their high professionalism and courage. For this period of time more than 3000 tons of cargo and hundreds of passengers has already been transported.

10/01/2007
The sailor with freighter, Odisk, hospitalized after poisoning with chemical substance, - in stable condition.
The more early messages have said that Odisk, registered in port Freetown and sailling under flag Sierra Leone, had ten members Russian-Ukrainian commands and carried 2,000 tons ferrosilicomanganese from Kerch before Iskanerun, Turkey.
The ship captain reported the commercial port Yalta in January 5 that command had sufferring poisoning from toxic vapours. The ship was on distance of one kilometer from Yalta. 11/01/2007

24/12/2006
Seven passengers were killed and another suffered burns in a fire that broke out in the tail carriage of a Kharkiv-Yazykovo train, the Ukrainian Emergency Situations Ministry reported on Sunday.
The fire flared up at 5:45 p.m. on Saturday, when the train was at a distance of 2 kilometers from the Lozovaya station of the Southern railway. It was put out at 7 p.m.
The fire was reportedly caused by violations of fire safety regulation by an unidentified passenger, who carried a canister filled with a flammable liquid.

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