Projectile event in Poltava Oblast, Kremenchuk area, Ukraine on Wed 23rd May 2018

On May 23 at 11:30 am the Rescue Service 101 received a message stating that 23 objects similar to obsolete ammunition were found in the open territory in Rechkovy Passage, that 23 objects similar to obsolete ammunition were found in the Avtozavodsky District of Kremenchuk. Pyrotechnics of a group of pyrotechnic works of the Emergency and Rescue Squad of the Special Purpose Unit of the Main Directorate of the SES of Ukraine in Poltava Oblast identified dangerous finds as artillery shells of 76 mm caliber from the past wars. At additional inspection of the territory of the SESS staff found 2 more artillery shells. On May 24, at 2:15 pm, explosive items were cleared at a special blasting site.