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KHARKIV – At approximately 1.00 p.m. on April 21, police received information of an explosive device at Kharkiv International Airport, the Premier Palace Hotel Kharkiv and the Ave Plaza and Auchan shopping centers.

“Police units and bomb experts have been dispatched to check the information. Citizens are being evacuated…. The premises and surrounding area are being checked,” the communications department of Kharkiv’s region’s National Police said.