Sappers from Zaporizhzhia help demining Mykolaiv Oblast

Zaporizhzhia pyrotechnics help demining the de-occupied territories of Mykolaiv Oblast, using mechanized demining machines.

This was reported in the Main Office of the State Emergency Service (SESU) in the Mykolaiv region.

«Currently, colleagues from Zaporizhzhia are carrying out this work in the Snihurivka region with the help of GCS-200 machines. By mechanized demining, mines and projectiles that are in the path of the machine are detonated. «Remote control allows you to check the territory while being at a safe distance from the densely mined area,» the message reads.

Demining of the Mykolaiv region, photo: GU DSNS in the Mykolaiv region

Pyrotechnics, photo: GU DSNS in Mykolaiv region

Pyrotechnics, photo: GU DSNS in Mykolaiv region

It is noted that since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, the pyrotechnic units of the State Emergency Service have removed and destroyed 25 thousand 206 units of the gross national product by means of controlled detonation, and 7 thousand 346 hectares have been demined.

How is the demining of the Mykolaiv Oblast going on?

Ukraine recently updated the country's priority demining plan. According to it, more than 512,000 hectares of agricultural land are subject to priority demining, of which 44,000 hectares are in Mykolaiv Oblast.

As of December 2023, 30% of the territory of the Mykolaiv region has been mined. In total, it is 754 thousand hectares of land.

At the same time, they are working on demining in the region. For example, as of October 2023, 13 thousand 40 hectares, including 9 thousand 25 hectares of agricultural land, have been demined in the Mykolayiv region.

Dmytro Komarov, the author of the «World Inside Out.Ukraine» project, visited the mined territories of the Mykolaiv region and showed the work of local sappers. NikVesti also told about a farmer from Kyselivka, who is trying to demine his fields on his own.

About 30,000-35,000 hectares of land remain mined in the Bashtanka district of the Mykolaiv region, part of which was under occupation. And in the village of Maksymivka of the Pervomaisk community of the Mykolaiv region, locals live with an unexploded shell under the foundation of the house.

In general, the demining situation in Maksymivka is currently critical. A year after liberation from the Russian occupiers, the village was demined by only 40%.

Read also the article «Decades are needed: How the demining process of the Mykolaiv region continues.»

It is known that the company «Demining of Ukraine» has developed a device capable of demining the Mykolaiv region for three months.

Read also the article «Self-demining: why farmers of the Mykolaiv region and Kherson region have to survey their lands themselves.»