MOSCOW - The majority of Russia's chemical weapons have been destroyed, Nikolai Kutyin, the head of the Federal Service on Environmental, Technological, and Nuclear Supervision (Rostekhnadzor), said.
"The majority of the chemical weapons, except for complex ammunition, have been destroyed. Everything that was in Kambarka and Gorny has been destroyed. Permanent environmental monitoring points have been created around all objects and the monitoring information is broadcast permanent over the Internet. Public organizations are able to receive data from this monitoring continually," Kutyin said at a "government hour" meeting in the Federation Council on Tuesday.
Permanent monitoring has been conducted for all these years since the commissioning of these objects, he said.
Kutyin reiterated that these objects are protected "at the highest technological level using modern equipment."
Responding to senators’ questions, Kutyin said his agency is now working together with the company RusHydro. "The purpose of this work is to monitor the company’s objects using the newest computer databases," he said.
Monitoring is now being conducted at 10,000 industrial construction objects, Kutyin said.
"All these objects are extremely important and national security depends on their state," he said.
