Leningrad Governor Alexander Drozdenko reported Monday that a power transmission pole in the region’s Gatchinsky District was blown up just after midnight on the night of April 30–May 1. A second explosive device was found at another transmission pole, he said, but bomb technicians managed to de-mine it.
Drozdenko said the explosion didn’t cause any power outages.
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