There may be about 400 sea mines in the Black Sea, but it is difficult to estimate the exact number due to the mine-explosive devices washed away as a result of the explosion of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station a year ago.
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The spokesman for the Ukrainian Navy, Dmitry Pletenchuk, spoke about this on the national telethon.
The latest official figures announced by the authorities are four hundred mines, he noted. But this is a fairly approximate number, considering how many mines and explosive devices were dropped as a result of the destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station by the Russians, it is difficult to calculate.
Pletenchuk noted that the Dnieper there was quite densely mined, so after the occupiers blew up the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station dam, “the big water washed it all away,” first of all, into the Dnieper-Bug estuary.
This will affect civilian shipping in Nikolaev ports, although this is currently impossible in principle, he emphasized.
Pletenchuk emphasized that it would only be possible to determine the number of explosive devices during mine clearance operations in the Black Sea.
In any case, global experience of such conflicts indicates that this is work that will take years, he added.
A sea mine exploded near a resort town in Romania.
Source: Racurs
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