Initially, the area of occupied territories potentially contaminated with explosive objects in Ukraine was estimated at 174 thousand square kilometers, of which 14 thousand square kilometers are water areas.
About 30 thousand square kilometers of the deoccupied territories of Ukraine are recognized as having no evidence of contamination by explosive objects, this is more than 17% of the initial assessment of contamination. This was announced on Saturday, June 29, by the head of the Main Directorate of Mine Action, Civil Protection and Environmental Safety of the Ministry of Defense, Colonel Ruslan Beregulya, writes the press service of the Ministry of Defense.
“Thanks to our joint work, the area of contaminated areas has been reduced by 30 thousand square kilometers. This means that the explosive objects found in these areas have not been discovered or neutralized,” he said.
According to him, the most contaminated regions remain Kherson, Kharkov and Nikolaev regions, where in total more than 50% of all incidents with explosive objects among the civilian population took place.
The representative of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine noted that to clear the occupied territories from explosive objects, the demining teams of the security and defense forces, as well as mine operators, employs 78 mechanized demining vehicles of both domestic and foreign production.
We remind you that in the Chernihiv region, a RES car was blown up by Russian explosives.
Earlier it was reported that fishermen were blown up by Russian explosives in the Kherson region.
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Source: korrespondent
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