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Employees of the Novopskov police department of the National Police’s main directorate in Luhansk region have discovered a cache of weapons and ammunition outside the village of Osynove.

“In a forest, near the village of Osynove in the Novopskov district, at a depth of 80 cm from the surface, the police found a plastic barrel containing three RPG-22 grenade launchers, three RGD grenades, three F-1 grenades, six fuzes and about 350 cartridges of different caliber,” the regional police said in a press release on September 24.

Weapons and ammunition were sent for examination. Operatives are establishing the owners of the seized weapons. The case was included in the single register of pretrial investigations and is qualified under Article 263 (illicit treatment of weapons, ammunition or explosives) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.