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Kharkiv - The police and prosecution service have denied claims that there were a series of explosions in Kharkiv overnight.

“We have had no information about explosions,” a source in Kharkiv
region police department’s public relations division told
Interfax-Ukraine on Nov. 12.

“There were no explosions in Kharkiv in the early morning hours of Nov. 12,” the Kharkiv region prosecution service told
Interfax-Ukraine.

Reports posted in social networking services claimed that a series of
explosions had occurred last night and on Wednesday morning in the
Kominternivsky, Frunzensky and Moskovsky districts of Kharkiv. Bloggers
wrote about explosions “which did not sound like fireworks” but did not
mention their location or what damage they had caused. Similar
information was released on websites supporting the pro-Russian
militants.