Putin orders nationalization of ammunition plant where boiler room accident caused 22,000 to lose power

Vladimir Putin has ordered for the Klimovsk Specialized Ammunition Plant in the town of Podolsk, where a mechanical failure in a boiler room caused approximately 22,000 people to lose heat and water amid freezing temperatures last week, to be nationalized, Moscow Governor Andrey Vorobyov announced Tuesday.

According to the governor, the “nationalization mechanism” has already been initiated. He added that the ammunition plant’s boiler room was managed “very poorly” and that there were “practically no qualified, competent personnel” working there when the incident took place.

The Klimovsk Specialized Ammunition Plant’s general director and the head of its boiler room, as well as the deputy head of the Podolsk city administration, have reportedly been arrested in connection with the power failure.