"The message that a projectile detonation occurred in a tent camp in a forest near Baltiysk, presumably during the Great Patriotic War, was received by law enforcement agencies on Sunday night (August 9 - RT ), two young children were injured," RIA Novosti quotes the official representative of the regional head of the department Natalia Gatsko.

According to the investigation, the explosion of the shell in the ground occurred after a fire was made.

A five-year-old boy and a nine-year-old girl received shrapnel wounds and were hospitalized, their condition is assessed by doctors as severe and moderate.

Earlier IA "Kryminform" reported that 5.6 thousand shells of the Great Patriotic War were defused in the territory of the Kerch fortress in a year.