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Russia claims explosion at St. Petersburg academy caused by World War Two ammunition

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Russia claims explosion at St. Petersburg academy caused by World War Two ammunition
Photo for illustrative purposes: View of the Griboyedov Canal with New Year's illumination and the Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood in St. Petersburg. (Artem Priakhin/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Russia's military reported on May 17 that a blast at the Budyonny Military Academy of the Signal Corps in St. Petersburg, which injured seven servicemen, was caused by the accidental detonation of World War II-era ammunition.

According to Interfax news agency, the incident occurred while servicemen were inspecting underground areas at the academy in Russia's second-largest city, citing information from the Leningrad military district.

St. Petersburg Governor Alexander Beglov said the blast was not linked to terrorism.

The condition of the injured in the blast at the academy was not immediately reported. The academy trains soldiers serving in the army’s signal corps.

St. Petersburg, home to approximately 5.4 million people, is located about 700 kilometers (approximately 435 miles) northwest of Moscow.

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Olena Goncharova is the Head of North America desk at The Kyiv Independent, where she has previously worked as a development manager and Canadian correspondent. She first joined the Kyiv Post, Ukraine's oldest English-language newspaper, as a staff writer in January 2012 and became the newspaper’s Canadian correspondent in June 2018. She is based in Edmonton, Alberta. Olena has a master’s degree in publishing and editing from the Institute of Journalism in Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv. Olena was a 2016 Alfred Friendly Press Partners fellow who worked for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for six months. The program is administered by the University of Missouri School of Journalism in Columbia.

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