People's Deputies of Ukraine Mykola Tomenko and Yurii Artemenko have prepared a parliamentary inquiry to the Prosecutor General of Ukraine demanding that all measures of prosecutorial response provided for by law be taken without delay in order to objectively clarify the reasons for the failure to fulfill the instructions of the President of Ukraine regarding improving the state of security at domestic ammunition depots. The basis for the inquiry was the man-made disaster following the explosions on May 6, 2004, at ammunition depots near the village of Novobohdanivka in the Melitopol district of Zaporizhzhia region. \n \n Back on December 24, 2002, the President issued an order "On checking the state of preservation of weapons, ammunition and explosives in military formations and law enforcement agencies," in accordance with which a Commission was created to check compliance with legal requirements on the preservation of weapons, ammunition and explosives in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, other military formations and law enforcement agencies. In February 2003, taking into account the conclusions of the Commission's work, the President of Ukraine issued an instruction to the Cabinet of Ministers to analyze, within a three-month period, the implementation of programs to ensure the survivability of arsenals and the disposal of obsolete ammunition. However, proper conclusions were drawn neither by the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, nor by the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Ukraine, nor by the Security Service of Ukraine," noted Mykola Tomenko. He also recalled that in October 2003 there was an emergency situation similar to today's — explosions at ammunition depots in the city of Artemivsk. \n \nTomenko and Artemenko initiated the submission to the Verkhovna Rada of a draft Resolution according to which it is envisaged to hear without delay (on the first plenary day of the parliament's work next week) in the parliament the reports of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, the Head of the Security Service of Ukraine, as well as the Minister of Emergency Situations of Ukraine in connection with the threat of a man-made disaster in the Melitopol district of Zaporizhzhia region. \nThe draft Resolution envisages instructing the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine to allocate funds from the reserve fund of the State Budget of Ukraine to compensate for material and moral damage to residents of settlements in the Melitopol district of Zaporizhzhia region affected by the explosions," reported Mykola Tomenko \n