State Emergency Service of Ukraine has disarmed a total of 45,000 explosive devices in Ukraine, including 2,000 aerial bombs
IRYNA BALACHUK — FRIDAY, 24 JUNE 2022, 13:57
State Emergency Service [SES] specialists have already disarmed more than 45,000 explosive devices on the territory of Ukraine, and it will take at least 10 years to demine the entire country.
Source: Oleksandr Khorunzhyi, Press Officer of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, at a briefing at the Media Centre Ukraine - Ukrinform on 24 June
Quote from Khorunzhyi: "These are optimistic estimates, because we don’t know yet what is happening in the territories where active hostilities are taking place. Or what we will see when we liberate them from the occupiers. SES units are still working on demining the country after the First and Second World Wars."
Details: According to Khorunzhyi, more than 62,000 hectares have been cleared, and over 45,000 explosive devices have been disarmed, including about 2,000 aerial bombs.
SES specialists are also demining bodies of water.
About 33 hectares of water bodies in Kyiv, Sumy, Zaporizhzhia and Mykolaiv oblasts have already been cleared [of explosives]. 664 explosive devices were disarmed there.
