In the Balakley of the Kharkov region, after a fire at the arsenal, electricity was restored, reports "Channel 5".

As a result of the explosions, city communications were damaged, gas supply was cut off.

After the intensity of the explosions has decreased, repairmen have started restoration work. To return the city power supply, the chairman of the Kharkiv regional state administration Yulia Svetlichnaya promised on Sunday, March 26, gas supply - on Thursday, March 30.

Single explosions on the technical territory of the arsenal are still fixed. According to Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Gennady Zubko, their intensity is ten explosions per hour.

In the city of Balakleya, Kharkov region, on the night of March 23, a large ammunition depot exploded, where artillery and tank shells were stored. As a result of the incident about 20 thousand residents of Balakleya and two nearby settlements were evacuated. On the morning of March 24, the chairman of the Federal State Dispatch Service of Ukraine Nikolai Chechetkin informed that in the destroyed structures of the apartment building in the area of ??

the explosions rescuers discovered the deceased woman born in 1951.

SBU opened a criminal case on the fact of explosions in Balakley and investigates the incident as a diversion. In addition, the military prosecutor's office instituted criminal proceedings on these facts under the article "Negligence".

Read more about the large-scale fire at ammunition depots in the Kharkov region in the article by Sergei Zhukov "The Warehouse of Problems" in the weekly "Mirror of the Week. Ukraine".