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Second Blast at Russia Arms Depot
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by Barbara McPherson | November 23, 2009 at 03:18 pm
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Eight military personnel were killed during a cleanup operation at Russian arms depot in Ulyanovsk. Ulyanovsk is located east of Moscow and the arms depot was the scene of a large fire earlier this month. That fire claimed the lives of two emergency workers.
"Eight soldiers died as the result of a munitions blast at the 31st arsenal of the Russian navy in Ulyanovsk," the Russian defence ministry said on Monday.
Alexei Kuznetsov, a defence ministry spokesman, said a shell detonated when military personnel were loading ammunition onto a lorry to be taken away and destroyed.
The Russian military has been struggling with outdated equipment and poor training since the disbandment of the former Soviet Union.
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at 16:07 on November 23rd, 2009
This is the "resurgent" Russia, that is going to reclaim the glories of the Soviet?