Two police officers were injured during demining in the Kherson region
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- Diana Shlykova
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16:00, 07 May, 2024
Demining in the de-occupied territory. Archive photo: SESUIn the Kherson region, two policemen were injured during demining.
This is reported by the police of the Kherson region.
It is noted that two police officers from the Zhytomyr Region were injured in Bilohirka during the demining of the territory due to the detonation of ammunition.
They were taken to the hospital with mine-explosive injuries, shrapnel injuries and aquabaro injuries. The condition of law enforcement officers is stable, there is no threat to their lives.
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 Mykolaiv 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 Bashtan 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 plant capable of demining the Mykolaiv region for three months.