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Russian Guard forces render harmless large Ukrainian arms depot in Kharkov Region

The Russian Guard’s forces seized four 30mm automatic guns, 300 high-explosive fragmentation shells, over 30,000 rounds, more than 3,000 grenades and 10 boxes with VOG-17 grenade launcher rounds and 31 PG-9S rockets

MOSCOW, April 28. /TASS/. The Russian Guard’s forces rendered harmless a large arms depot in the Kharkov Region that Ukrainian nationalists intended to use for subversive acts, the Russian Guard’s press office told TASS on Thursday.

"During reconnaissance and search measures in the Kharkov Region, the forces of the Russian Guard inspected houses in a forest and discovered in the basements a large arms and ammunition depot of the Ukrainian armed forces. They established that the nationalists had prepared the depot in advance to provide for the activity of sabotage and reconnaissance formations on the territories in border areas liberated by the Russian troops," the statement says.

The Russian Guard’s forces seized four 30mm automatic guns, 300 high-explosive fragmentation shells, over 30,000 rounds, more than 3,000 grenades and 10 boxes with VOG-17 grenade launcher rounds and 31 PG-9S rockets, the press office specified.