KALININGRAD, October 16 (AVN) - A large WWII-time ammunition cache was found in the village of Loginovo in the western Russian enclave of Kaliningrad in the past weekend, the commander of the separate engineering battalion of the Baltic Fleet naval engineer service, that is working on the site, told the Military News Agency.
During two days the sappers have evacuated to safety and eliminated by explosion some 1,000 artillery and air defence shells, mortar mines and grenades, Lieutenant-Colonel Konstantin Kuznetsov said.
That does not come seldom when such caches are found in Russia's westernmost region, Kuznetsov said. In the nine months of 2000, the sappers of the battalion rendered harmless over 3,000 pieces of ammunition, including four aviation bombs.