Demining in the Bashtanka district: the State Emergency Service cleared 190 hectares of arable land out of the 6,000 planned in 2024

Demining on the territory of the Mykolaiv region. Archive photo of NikVesti

In 2024, it was planned to survey 6 thousand hectares of arable land in the Bashtan district. Within half a year, sappers of the State Emergency Service cleared 190 hectares of explosive and dangerous objects.

Vladyslav Dmytriv, the head of the Bashtanka District Military Administration, told about this during a briefing on August 21, NikVesti reports.

«Especially where there was a sufficiently active base, the phase of the contact line, the floodplain of the Inhulets River, the former demarcation line, there are big problems there,» he said.

This year, 512 explosive objects were removed from 190 hectares of land surveyed by the State Emergency Service.

«190 hectares and 512 explosive objects. You understand how much land is polluted by these residues. We do not forget that the war is near, the war continues, and today almost every night we see the consequences of all this,» said Vladyslav Dmytriv.

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.

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.

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