This is reported by the president's press service.
Kuchma also signed a decree on the dismissal of Petro Shuliak from the post of Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
As is known, the decision to dismiss these military chiefs was adopted at a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council in connection with the investigation of explosions at military depots near Melitopol.
Kuchma also signed the decree "On Personal Responsibility of Senior Officials of the Armed Forces of Ukraine."
By this document Kuchma ordered "for serious shortcomings in work to announce a reprimand to Yevhen Marchuk - Minister of Defense of Ukraine, warning him of personal responsibility for the state of explosion and fire safety of arsenals, bases and depots."
Also warned about incomplete official conformity were Oleksandr Oliinyk - First Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine; Hryhorii Pedchenko - Commander of the Southern Operational Command.
Kuchma obligated the Minister of Defense "based on the results of an official investigation to resolve the issue of holding accountable and of remaining in occupied posts the officials of the Armed Forces of Ukraine whose actions or inaction led to an emergency event that had grave consequences."
As is known, on May 26 at a meeting of the National Security Council Kuchma stated that the situation near Melitopol 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 at the time.