“The occupiers are minting everything, even cots and dog houses”, - SNSS sapper Alexander Dvoretsky about the de-occupied territory of the Kherson region
Colonel of the Civil Protection Service Oleksandr Dvoretsky, a sapper from Ternopil region, has been working as a specialty in the State Emergency Service for more than 25 years.
When the full-scale war began, Oleksandr already had considerable combat experience, because he had previously repeatedly been a participant in the ATO and the Joint Forces, where he served as assistant to the head of demining operations.
Since April 2022, the rescuer started working in the territories of Kyiv region liberated from Russian occupiers, where he, together with pyrotechnics from all over Ukraine, searched for and defused explosive objects. And already in January 2023, Oleksandr was appointed as the head of humanitarian demining of the territories of the Kherson region, where now most of our pyrotechnic calculations are concentrated.
According to the sapper, in the Kherson region there is no zone uncontaminated by explosives. Here, either intense battles were fought everywhere, or occupation units of the occupiers were deployed. Everything from private courtyards to fields and forests here is “dotted” with death. Damaged power lines, wells, houses, civil cemeteries, dog houses, cots in homes, household items, including children's. The surrounding fields are dotted with anti-tank mines with additional bookmarks. There are even dead civilians, who themselves were shot so that whoever comes to pick up the body will also blow up.
“All this is done purposefully so that it will not be possible to live in this territory for a long time, that it will not be possible to restore it, to mine fields or to restore electricity, in order to cause maximum damage not only to the military, but also to the civilian population of Ukraine, in order to sow panic. But they will not be able to break us,” Oleksandr Dvoretsky is sure.
As the pyrotechnician noted, demining in the Kherson region is a long, responsible, dangerous and extremely complex process. Work will continue for many more years, given the scale of the use of munitions, including those prohibited by various international conventions.
But the pyrotechnic calculations of the State Emergency Service make every effort every day, working side by side, to bring this moment closer and free our land from the Russian railway and make it safe for everyone.
State Emergency Service of Ukraine
