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Dry grass has caught fire in the territory of a former artillery ammunition depot near Balakliya (military unit A 1352, Kharkiv region), fire tanks and an engineering machine are being used to extinguish the fire, the press service of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has reported.

“Today, on May 3, at 13:35, dry grass caught fire in the territory of a former arms depot in Balakliya, Kharkiv region, where the work continues to clean up and demine remains of shells that did not get off during last year’s emergency,” the General Staff of the Armed Forces said in the message posted on its Facebook page.