Police said the air-to-ground missile found was about 7 meters long, weighed 930 kg and had a powerful warhead weighing more than 280 kg.
In the Sumy region, police explosive experts neutralized an X-59 aircraft missile, which did not explode during the fall. The press service of the Sumy region police reported this on Friday, March 29.
It was reported that while patrolling the community area in a car, a police officer noticed an elongated gray object at the edge of the forest.
“Upon approaching, the officer realized that he had discovered a Russian missile. He took a picture of the find and reported it to line 102. Employees of the explosives department, when they came out, understood that this time they would deal with X .-59 Gadfly aircraft missile.” , – said the message.
Police said the air-to-ground missile was about 7 meters long, weighed 930 kg and had a powerful warhead weighing more than 280 kg.
“If it hits a target, it requires serious destruction and loss of life. Such weapons, if detected, are destroyed by air defense systems in flight, but if they do not explode during the fall , they were neutralized by sappers at the spot of discovery,” the statement said. .
Sappers remotely separated the warhead from the hull and then detonated it near the discovery site. The explosion set fire to dry grass on the edge of the forest near the farm, and police were able to extinguish the fire to prevent it from spreading into the forest.
The police remind you that in the border and front-line areas, as well as in the occupied territories, there are many explosives, so you should not handle suspicious objects under any circumstances.
“There is evidence that the enemy provides some of its weapons, which it uses against the Ukrainians, with special delayed-action devices that can work even hours, or even days after the fall,” the note of the police.
Law enforcement officials are asked not to touch unknown objects and to report suspicious findings to local authorities, police, military or rescue workers.
Earlier it was reported that in the Nikolaev region, on the coast of the Dnieper-Bug estuary, a dead man was found with a mine-explosive amputation of his legs.
Source: korrespondent
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