About 12,000 people were evacuated from their homes after the blaze and blasts

Ukraine today. President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko instructed Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak and Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin to complete talks with the North Atlantic Alliance on the implementation of a special trust fund that will ensure safe use and effective protection of ammunition storage facilities. An intense series of explosions and a fast-moving fire ripped through an ammunition depot in Ukraine, prompting the evacuation of thousands of people and igniting suspicions of sabotage in a country mired in a simmering war with Russia-backed separatists.