A large ammunition depot has been neutralized in the Vitebsk region

August 3, Vitebsk / Olga Bogacheva - BELTA /. A large ammunition depot has been neutralized in the Vitebsk region, the press group of the KGB Directorate for the Vitebsk Region informed a BELTA correspondent. During the "Arsenal" operation, based on operational information received by the KGB Directorate for the Vitebsk Region, specialists from the sapper-pyrotechnic group of military unit 5524 found a depot of ammunition from the Great Patriotic War in a forest near the village of Poloiniki, Vitebsk region. 171 rounds of ammunition were found in the ground, including 146 mortar mines of 82 mm caliber, 1 mortar mine of 120 mm caliber, 1 artillery shell of 76 mm caliber, 21 rifle grenades, and 1 RGD-33 grenade. The ammunition was transported to a training ground and destroyed. Their total weight in TNT equivalent was about 75 kg. In total, since the beginning of the year, employees of the KGB Directorate for the Vitebsk Region, together with specialists from military unit 5524, have seized and destroyed ammunition with a total weight of over 310 kg in TNT equivalent.