Rail traffic at the station Balakleya in Kharkiv region, which was discontinued due to the explosion of ammunition in military warehouses resumed. This was announced by the Chairman of Balakleya district state administration Stepan Maselsky.
“14-30 resumed the movement of trains on station balakliia,” wrote Maselsky on his page in Facebook.
We will remind, in the night of Thursday, March 23, in Balakleya (Kharkiv oblast) on one of the largest in Ukraine ammunition depot explosion, followed by fire and a chain detonation of ammunition.
Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak said that according to available preliminary findings of the cause of the fire and explosions of ammunition in warehouses was a diversion. “One theory is that it is a diversion. In particular, the dropping of the explosive device with UAVs,” said Poltorak.
Later , SBU qualified state of emergency in Balakleya as a diversion.
Deputy Minister of defence of Ukraine Igor Pavlovsky Friday, March 24, reported the complete elimination of fire in artillery warehouses.