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Blast hits port of Odesa region, where Ukraine stored foreign equipment

Donetsk, Jan 31 (UNI) An explosion rocked a commercial port in the Odessa region, where the Ukrainian armed forces stored foreign equipment and ammunition, coordinator of the local pro-Russian underground network Sergei Lebedev told Sputnik on Friday.
"There was an explosion in the city of Belgorod-Dnestrovsky [Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi] in the Belgorod-Dnestrovsky commercial port ... [The Ukrainian armed forces military] brazenly accumulated equipment and ammunition transferred [from abroad] in warehouses," Lebedev said.
The strike was carried out in the area of ​​the ferry complex in Ilyichevsk (Chornomorsk) in the Odesa region, where military cargo arrives from Romania, he said.
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