Nine ammunition items from the Great Patriotic War era were discovered in various districts of the Vitebsk region over the past 24 hours

July 2, Vitebsk / Sergei Kochetov - BELTA /. Nine munitions from the Great Patriotic War were discovered in various districts of the Vitebsk region over the past day, the press secretary of the regional department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, Marina Fando, told a BELTA correspondent. For example, in the Rossony district, a local resident, while swimming in the Drisa River, noticed objects that looked like military ammunition. As it turned out, there were six 150 mm caliber shells from the past war in that place. In Vitebsk, while cleaning the beach in the Park of the Soviet Army, rescuers of the Osvod came across a grenade. Arriving specialists from the demining group of military unit 5524 of the Ministry of Internal Affairs established that it was a Soviet-made hand grenade of the 1942 model. One more shell each was discovered in the Polotsk and Shumilino districts during excavation work. As of the morning of July 2, two munitions have been neutralized. In other cases, the departure of the demining group is planned for today, and the sites where explosive objects were found are under the protection of the Ministry of Internal Affairs staff. -0-