The State Emergency Service, until 24 December 2012 the Ministry of Emergencies of Ukraine, is the main body in the system of central bodies of the executive power that provides realization of a state policy in the sphere of a civil defence, rescue, creation and functioning of the system of insurance fund documentation, utilization of radioactive wastes, protection of population and territory from any emergency situations, preventing such situations and reaction to them, liquidation of their results and the results of the Chernobyl catastrophe. Read More
The number of people injured in explosions at an ammunition depot located in Russia's Ryazan region has reached 13, the regional government said on Thursday. ...
The Russian Ministry of Emergencies told Sputnik it would send on Wednesday five aircraft with a mobile hospital, doctors, rescue workers and public health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor staffers to Lebanon, recently hit by a powerful explosion that result ...