They brought home the found ammunition: a boy and a minor girl suffered from the detonation of explosives in the Mykolaiv region

A 19-year-old boy and a 17-year-old girl were injured by the detonation of explosives in the Mykolaiv region / Illustrative photo

On Sunday, April 14, a 19-year-old boy and a 17-year-old girl were injured due to the detonation of explosives in the village of Kvitneve of the Pervomayska community in the Mykolaiv region.

This was reported by the State Service for Emergency Situations in the Mykolaiv region.

According to rescuers, according to preliminary information, the victims found ammunition, brought it home and «wanted to do something with it.» As a result of physical impact on the explosive, it detonated. The boy and the girl are currently in medical facilities. Doctors are fighting for their lives.

«It is worth noting that the area where the incident happened remains a potentially polluted area, because the community was in the zone of active hostilities for a long time. That is why there is a high level of mine danger here,» the report says.

The rescuers emphasized that if you find an object that looks like an explosive, it is strictly forbidden to:

• touch, move it or do any other actions with it, especially try to disassemble or destroy it;
• carry out any work near the find, especially those that may cause even a slight movement of the soil;
• to smoke near it, use lighters, as well as other sources of open fire and objects that can create it;
• use radio-electronic devices near him (mobile phones, remote controls, car alarms, etc.);
• pour liquids on the object, cover it with soil, try to cover it with something or perform other actions on it: sound, light, heat, mechanical and others;
• allow gathering of people directly next to the found object.

The State Emergency Service reminded what to do in case of discovery of an explosive object:

• stop, do not touch anything;
• remember the place of discovery of the object;
• warn people nearby about the discovered object;
• go away yourself and take the people nearby as far as possible (at least 100 meters) from the find. At the same time, it is necessary to leave by the same route (preferably following the same route) by which you came.

You also need to call 101 or 102.

It will be recalled that since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Russia, more than 887 Ukrainians have suffered as a result of detonations of explosive objects left in Ukraine by the Russians.

How many Ukrainians were affected by mines?

According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, over two years, 610 people were injured, 277 were killed during the detonation of mines and other explosive objects. 14 children were among those killed by mines. Most of the victims were in the Mykolaiv, Kherson and Kharkiv regions.

Last year, 2023, 17 people, including one child, died in the Mykolaiv Oblast due to the detonation of ammunition. According to the calculations of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (ESES), there were a total of 57 cases of detonation of the civilian population by landmines last year.

On November 24, 2022, a case of mine detonation was recorded in the de-occupied Snihurivka community in the Mykolayiv region. Employees of the State Emergency Service were killed and wounded.

On December 15, 2022, a man found two anti-personnel mines left behind by the Russian military in one of the villages of Snihurivka region. The shells were detonated. A 26-year-old man died on the spot.

On April 22, 2022, in the town of Snihurivka, near the former mineral water plant, two residents of the community were blown up by an anti-personnel mine.

In the city of Snihurivka, on September 20, 2023 , a car carrying two men was blown up by a mine. One of them died on the spot, the second man was hospitalized.

On October 11, 2023, a mine exploded in a field near the town of Snihurivka. The driver was injured as a result of the explosion and is in the hospital.

Also, on February 1, 2024, four people were detonated by a mine near the village of Yevgenivka in the Mykolaiv region.

On March 5, 2024, a 38-year-old man blew himself up in the village of Bezimenne, Snihurivka community, Bashtanka district.

In addition, in the Sniguriv region, the pyrotechnic group of the State Emergency Service demined the area where a cow was blown up by an explosive device.