Photo gallery: melange disposal in Ukraine

The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine, Lubomir Kopaj, speaks to journalists at an event to mark an OSCE project that will help Ukraine safely dispose of the toxic rocket fuel component melange. Kalynivka, Vinnytsya region. 18 November 2009. (OSCE/Susanna Lööf)

A fireman stands on guard near a specialized railway tank holding the toxic rocket fuel component melange at a military base in Kalynivka, Vinnytsya region of Ukraine, 18 November 2009. The melange will be safely disposed of in an OSCE project. (OSCE/Susanna Lööf)

The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine, Ambassador Lubomir Kopaj, speaks to journalists near Kalynivka on 18 November 2009. (OSCE/Susanna Lööf)

A specialized railway tank holding the toxic rocket fuel component melange sits in a military base in Kalynivka, Vinnytsya region, ahead of its departure to Russia, where it will be safely disposed of in an OSCE project. 18 November 2009. (OSCE/Susanna Lööf)

Ukrainian military personnel in protective suits during an exercise held as part of an OSCE project that will help Ukraine safely dispose of thousands of tonnes of the toxic rocket fuel component melange. Kalynivka, Vinnytsya region. 18 November 2009. (OSCE/Susanna Lööf)

Ukrainian military personnel in protective suits during an exercise held as part of an OSCE project that will help Ukraine safely dispose of thousands of tonnes of the toxic rocket fuel component melange. Kalynivka, Vinnytsya region. 18 November 2009. (OSCE/Susanna Lööf)

A specialized railway tank holding the toxic rocket fuel component melange sits in a military base in Kalynivka, Vinnytsya region, ahead of its departure to Russia, where it will be safely disposed of in an OSCE project. 18 November 2009. (OSCE/Susanna Lööf)

Lubomir Kopaj (c), OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine, talks to journalists at the melange storage site in Kalynyvka, Vynnytsa region, 18 November 2009. (OSCE/Susanna Lööf)

Ukrainian military personnel in protective equipment pumping melange, a toxic rocket fuel component, to special railway tanks during its removal from a storage depot in Kalynivka, Vinnytsya region, Ukraine, 14 November 2009. (OSCE/Anton Martynyuk)

OSCE Secretary General Marc Perrin de Brichambaut (left) and Ukraine's acting Minister of Defence Valeriy Ivashchenko sign a contract for the disposal of the toxic rocket fuel component melange, Kyiv, 16 September 2009. (OSCE/Oksana Polyuga)