Lovnidol

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Lovnidol
Village
Country Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria
Province Gabrovo Province
Municipality Sevlievo
Time zone UTC+2 (EET)
  Summer (DST) UTC+3 (EEST)

Lovnidol is a village in the municipality of Sevlievo, in Gabrovo Province, in northern central Bulgaria. [1]

On 12 November 2011 an ammunition depot near the village was blown up. The explosion was later linked to a GRU sabotage group. [2]

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References

  1. Guide Bulgaria, Accessed May 24, 2010
  2. "The Insider: Russian GRU has been organizing explosions in Europe since 2011". Militarnyi. Retrieved 2023-11-01.

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