The SBU discovered a device for blowing up a railway bridge in the Poltava region
Poltava, April 03 (Navigator, Victoria Litovchenko) – SBU officers discovered a cache of artillery shells in the village of Yuskovtsy, Poltava region.
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The cache was discovered by accident - first there was a report that local residents had found a mortar mine near the support of the railway bridge.
When inspecting the area near the discovered mine, SBU officers found an object similar to a homemade fuse. The department suggests that this fuse could have been used to initiate an explosive device, which suggests that the mine was deliberately planted.
Employees of the SBU and the Ministry of Internal Affairs are identifying those involved in the manufacture of an improvised explosive device.
As reported in the regional department of the SBU, also the day before, a cache with 36 artillery shells and 5 mortar mines from the Great Patriotic War was discovered in the forest in the Karlovsky district of the Poltava region.
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