About 19,000 citizens evacuated from Balaklia and nearby villages
(WorldNews Europe)

At 2 a.m. on March 23 there occurred a fire followed by detonation of munitionin the territory of a military ammunitiondepotof the Ministry of Defenseof Ukraine, in the town Balakliia, Kharkiv region. There are being observed blasts of varying intensity. The State Emergency Service engages in evacuation of citizens from the town and nearby settlements - the villages of Verbivkaand Yakovenkove. There have been deployed 6 evacuation stations that accommodate people. For the...