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No hazardous waste on the Ukrainian-Russian border - deputy

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KIEV, October 31 (RIA Novosti, Taras Burnos) - Ukraine does not have official data on the existence of stockpiles of hazardous chemical and nuclear waste on the Ukrainian-Russian border, a Ukrainian parliament member said Monday.

"According to official data, there are no such stockpiles there [on the border]," said Gennady Rudenko, head of the Ukrainian parliamentary committee on environmental safety.

He did however say that there could be cases of the improper storage of chemicals and mineral fertilizers in the border regions.

"After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine took possession of about 20,000 tons of hazardous chemicals used in industry and agriculture," he said. "We have, on numerous occasions, discovered cases of the barbaric treatment of the environment and blunt violations of environmental safety in other regions of the country."

The Russian daily, Komsomolskaya Pravda, reported last week that stockpiles of hazardous chemical and nuclear waste were located on the border between Russia and the Donetsk region in Ukraine.

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