Representatives of the military attache of the US Embassy in Ukraine arrived in Balakleyu, Kharkiv region, to determine the scope and nature of future assistance from partner countries, the press service of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry said..

At the same time, the senior group of foreign representatives, Pole Schmitt, noted the high professionalism of the Ukrainian military and representatives of other specialized structures in organizing and carrying out measures to eliminate the consequences of fire in the arsenal.

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".