Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma considers not only the Ministry of Defense but also the Cabinet of Ministers as a whole responsible for the emergency events at military depots in Zaporizhzhia Oblast. \n \nSpeaking on Wednesday at a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council in Kyiv, Kuchma noted that the government did not draw conclusions from the previous emergency event at military depots in Artemivsk, Donetsk Oblast. \n \n"This is also the responsibility of the Cabinet of Ministers. I don't want everyone to think that there is a Ministry of Defense, they dumped it on it - and that's it, or on the NSDC, on the secretariat," the president emphasized. \n \nHe called the emergency at ammunition depots in Zaporizhzhia Oblast a "serious tragedy." \n"A very serious tragedy has occurred that had and has a serious impact on the political, economic, and social situation not only in Ukraine itself," the head of state stated. \n \nKuchma noted that 2.5 million tons of explosive ammunition are stored in Ukraine, of which 1.5 million are subject to disposal. "It's no big secret under what conditions ammunition is stored, when today it's no secret that given the situation in the Armed Forces, no one can guarantee that this (emergency) won't happen tomorrow," he said. \n \nAt the same time, the president noted that the emergency situation in Zaporizhzhia Oblast is not an isolated case in the Armed Forces. Kuchma recalled the recent analogous emergency in Artemivsk. In his opinion, the causes of the emergencies in these two cases turned out to be "ordinary sloppiness, irresponsibility, negligence." \n \n"We did not draw any conclusions because everyone just wrote it off, ignoring the instructions of the NSDC, the orders of the prosecutor's office, reports from the SBU and fire service. Everyone was busy with only one thing - how to report that everything has been done and nothing threatens anyone," the head of state said. \n \nAccording to him, this became one of the reasons for creating a special government commission headed by Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych. \n