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UNIAN: Ammo depot explosions in Balakliya stop on May 3 afternoon

By UNIAN.

Published May 3, 2018 at 9:56 pm

A picture taken on March 23, 2017 shows smoke billowing after a series of explosions that hit overnight a military ammunition depot near the city of Balakliya, in the Kharkiv province of eastern Ukraine.

Photo by AFP

Explosions of ammunition at a military warehouse near the town of Balakliya in Kharkiv region, eastern Ukraine, stopped as of 4:00 p.m. local time on May 3.

“The number of explosions decreased after 3:00 p.m. and no explosions were reported as of 4:12 p.m. local time,” chief of the media liaison office of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Lieutenant-Colonel Bohdan Senyk told Radio Liberty’s Ukrainian-language service.