Yevgeny Yenin: Fire engineers of the State Emergency Service have detected and defused more than 180,000 explosive objects since the beginning of the war
Pyrotechnics also surveyed an area of more than 68 thousand hectares. Work on demining the territory of Ukraine continues. This was announced today, August 15, by the First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Yevhenii Yenin on the air of the All-Ukrainian Telemarathon #UАразом.
“One fifth of the territory of Ukraine is contaminated with mines, shells, aircraft bombs, which have not been detonated. Since the beginning of the war, the pyrotechnic units of the State Emergency Service have detected, removed and defused more than 180 thousand explosive objects and surveyed an area of more than 68 thousand hectares. The work on demining is not soldered for a moment, the result of the work of fire technicians of the State Emergency Service for a week is about 500 hectares. At the same time, work continues in the de-occupied territories to make the lives of our citizens safer. For example, the fighting in the Kiev region lasted about a month, and pyrotechnics have been clearing these areas of explosive objects for about five months. In the Kiev region, about one thousand explosive objects are still defused per day. And in all this time, more than 60,000 munitions have been neutralized there and the work is still ongoing,” Yevgeny Yenin said.
The First Deputy Head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs stressed that Russian troops continue to shell settlements in Ukraine, hitting mainly civilian facilities and residential quarters.
“Over the past 24 hours, the police registered 41 shelling of settlements. The Dnipropetrovsk region remains in sight, where about ten apartment buildings and private houses were damaged. A similar situation with shelling of civilian infrastructure was recorded in Donetsk region, Zaporizhzhia, Kirovohrad region. Also under shelling — Sumy region, Kharkiv region, Mykolaiv region, Odessa region. And as a result of such shelling, every day we record dozens of victims and injured, including among the civilian population,” Yevhenii Yenin noted.
According to him, in fact, no rocket or artillery shelling took place without being “illuminated” by agents.
“Usually these people work for little money or cooperate with the enemy on ideological issues. The police of all regions are focused on the development of preventive measures — special attention is paid to those areas on the territory of which hostilities are taking place. But active work is being carried out both in the Kiev region and in the western regions. And the result of these exercises are hundreds of people whom we reasonably suspect of carrying out subversive activities against Ukraine,” Yevhenii Yenin said.
Department of Communications of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine
