Denis Monastyrsky spoke about the work of explosives technicians and border guards during the war
Today, April 29, the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Denis Monastyrsky spoke about the work of explosives technicians and border guards during the live broadcast of “Yedeni Novosti”.
“The explosive devices of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine are degrading streets and houses so that citizens can safely return home. The government increased the number of pyrotechnics by a third. But we will need to increase their number even more, because the so-called “contaminated area” with shells, bombs, mines is very large,” the minister said.
Regarding the timing of demining, Denis Monastyrsky said that the world norm — for one day of active hostilities there is up to 30 days of demining.
“Today the State Emergency Service, pyrotechnics are actually praised, they are not enough. We reached out to the world and their pyrotechnic leaders. Today we agree that a number of international organizations working in the world precisely along the line of humanitarian post-war demining will involve their specialists in our staff of the State Emergency Service. I hope that in a few weeks the first teams of pyrotechnicians will be on the territory of Ukraine and join ours with their equipment, because this equipment is expensive (one demining machine costs 2.5-3 million euros). We understand that we will need this equipment a lot, and it will work for years,” the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs stressed.
Then we discussed the work of the border service. According to him, the border guards were the first to meet and respond with dignity to the occupier on the territory of our country, and this response is imprinted throughout Ukraine.
“They are currently fighting in Donbas and Mariupol. They are located in western Ukraine, where more than 3.5 million people have passed through the state border in one direction and more than 1 million have been returned to the other. This is a check of cargo and documents. In this mode, no border service has worked yet. They coped with this task,” said Denis Monastyrsky.
He added that after the end of the war, it will be possible to appreciate all those who took steps to victory.
