IZHEVSK/MOSCOW. Oct 16 (Interfax-AVN) - A chemical weapons disposal facility in the village of Kizner in the Umurtia republic has fully met the government targets set for 2015 and started implementing next year's plan.
"The facility fulfilled the state defense order in late September and is already working under the 2016 plan," a spokesperson for the Federal Agency for Safe Storage and Destruction of Chemical Weapons said on Thursday.
The Kizner plant has destroyed around 42% of stockpiles of chemical weapons due for destruction at this site; a total of around 92% of stockpiles have been eliminated across Russia.
The Kizner plant opened in December 2013. It is the last chemical weapons disposal facility operating in Russia.
The federal agency chief, Col. Gen. Valery Kapashin, told Interfax-AVN earlier: "Starting from 2016, destruction of chemical weapons will continue at the only and last Russian Kizner facility in Udmurtia."