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The death of sappers at Chernobyevka: what is known

Photo: Kherson Regional Prosecutor’s Office

Nine employees of the State Emergency Service died in the Kherson region.

In the Kherson region on May 6, nine pyrotechnicians of the State Emergency Service were killed during demining, and many more people were injured. The cause of the tragedy was not the negligence or lack of professionalism of the sappers, but the work of Russian intelligence. Details of the incident will be provided Correspondent.net.

Russian war crimes

According to the Office of the Prosecutor General, the tragedy occurred in the Kherson region, when a sapper team was clearing mines. At that moment, the Russian military dropped an explosive object from a drone on the pyrotechnic group.

Ukrainian media, citing sources, determined that the shelling took place at 13.40 on May 6 at the airport in the village of Chernobaevka during the disposal of ammunition at the sorting site. The press service of the State Emergency Service has repeatedly reported on the work of sappers at the airport in Chernobaevka.

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Earlier, law enforcement agencies identified six dead employees of the State Emergency Service at the scene. Two other employees, one of them a female paramedic, were taken to hospital with serious injuries.

“The State Emergency Service lost a part of his family. While carrying out mine clearing operations in the Kherson region, our pyrotechnicians were injured,” said the State Emergency Service.

The department released the names of the victims. These are Igor Solovyov, Nikolay Sholokh, Roman Kalenik, Vladimir Pogorely, Alexander Khodakovsky and Andrey Orlov.

“The terrorists continue to violate all the standards of international law by firing at our people, who have been trying to clear the territory for several months, which the invaders bombarded with bullets,” said of service.

Under the leadership of the procedure of the Kherson District Prosecutor’s Office, a pre-trial investigation in criminal proceedings was launched into the fact of violation of the laws and customs of war, accompanied by planned murder.

Death

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reacted to the war crimes of the Russians. The head of state also announced the increase in the number of deaths as a result of Russian attacks on sappers. So, in a speech in the evening on May 7, Zelensky mentioned the importance of the fact that the world should know every fact of Russian terrorism against Ukrainians and talk about the crimes of Russia and how Ukrainians are protected life.

“Continuous terror in Russia against Nikopol, brutal shelling of Kherson and region, attack on Kharkiv and region, terror against villages in border areas in Chernihiv and Sumy region, hell in Donetsk region … Only yesterday, and only from a Russian strike in the Kherson region, nine people died Ukrainians – they are demining, returning security to the people,” he said.

Zelensky expressed his condolences to the families and friends of the victims.

“Security is the main target for Russia. Both in our state and everywhere in Europe, everywhere in the free world. Destroying security, bringing death and chaos is all that a terrorist state does,” the president added.

Loss of State Emergency Services

Since the start of the full-scale war in Ukraine, 68 rescuers have died and more than 200 have been injured. Serhiy Kruk, head of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, spoke about this earlier.

In total, as specified by the press officer of the State Emergency Service Alexander Khorunzhiy, sappers make up 20% of the total losses of rescuers of the service.

“The pyrotechnic unit, sappers carry a big load … We have 20% of the total losses of rescuers of the State Emergency Service are sappers,” added Khorunzhiy.

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