Employees of the KGB Directorate for the Vitebsk Region discovered the largest batch of ammunition in recent years

May 24, Polotsk / Diana Kurilo - BELTA /. Employees of the Vitebsk region department of the State Security Committee, during operational search activities, discovered the largest batch of ammunition from the Great Patriotic War period in recent years, the press group of the Vitebsk region department of the KGB informed a BELTA correspondent. As a result of operational search activities conducted in a forest area near one of the settlements in the Vitebsk district, 289 rounds of ammunition were found: 252 mortar shells of 81 mm caliber, 8 artillery shells of 76 mm caliber, 1 artillery shell of 45 mm caliber, 3 artillery fuses, and 25 cartridge cases with primers, which is about 140 kg in TNT equivalent. Despite the fact that the ammunition had been in the ground for about 70 years, all of them had fuses and posed a particular danger. Employees of the Vitebsk region department of the KGB, in cooperation with specialists from the sapper-pyrotechnic group of military unit 5524, neutralized the ammunition depot. Since the beginning of the year, employees of the Vitebsk region department of the KGB, together with specialists from military unit 5524, have seized and destroyed over 25 kg of ammunition in TNT equivalent. However, the discovered batch became the largest in recent years. -0-