More than 24 thousand pieces of ammunition have already been found and neutralized in the Mykolaiv region

Demining of the Mykolaiv Oblast. Photo: GU DSNS in Mykolaiv region

As of July 15, the pyrotechnic units of the Mykolaiv Garrison's Emergency Department have removed and destroyed 24,550 munitions through controlled detonation.

This is reported by the Main Department of the State Service for Emergency Situations in the Mykolaiv region.

It is noted that more than 50,000 hectares of the region's territories were surveyed, 7,196 hectares of which were demined.

According to the State Emergency Service, as of July 15, 9,688 pyrotechnicians were involved in the demining of the Mykolayiv region.

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 Mykolaiv Oblast and showed the work of local sappers. NikVesti also told about a farmer from Kiselyvka, 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 NikVesti «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.