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The government of Ukraine will gather for an extraordinary meeting due to a fire in Kharkiv

  • The government of Ukraine will gather for an extraordinary meeting due to a fire in Kharkiv

Kiev: The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine will meet on Thursday for an extraordinary meeting due to a fire in a Kharkiv nursing home, which killed at least 15 people.

The Prime Minister of Ukraine Denis Shmygal wrote about this in his Telegram channel.

"After a terrible fire in a nursing home in Kharkiv, we are convening an extraordinary meeting of the Government. On behalf of the President of Ukraine, a State Commission will be created headed by the Minister of Community and Territorial Development, which will investigate the causes of the tragedy," -Shmygal stressed.

As previously reported, at least 15 people died during a fire in a nursing home in Kharkov on Thursday, January 21.

Later, the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Irina Venediktova said that the cause of the fire could have been careless handling of electric heating devices.


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