KHARKIV, March 12 – The shipment of another batch of melange, a highly toxic liquid rocket fuel component, which is stored at a military base A-2136 in Shevchenkivsky district in Kharkiv region, and its transportation for disposal to Russia have begun, according to the regional media center of the Defense Ministry of Ukraine in Kharkiv.

"By the middle of this month we are planning to remove an additional 380 tons [of melange] after this batch is sent," Commander of the storage facility for rocket fuel of the Ukrainian Ground Forces Oleksandr Nikolayev said.