Divers-miners have demined 28.4 hectares of Mykolaiv Oblast water area since the beginning of the full-scale war

A sapper-diver of the State Emergency Service is preparing to dive into the water to search for GNP. Photo: Olena Kozubovska, NikVesti

Mykolaiv region is included in the list of the most mined regions of Ukraine. Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, sappers-divers of the State Emergency Service have surveyed and demined 28.4 hectares of the region's water area.

This is stated in the report of NikVesti «Sammer-divers showed how to demine the water areas of the Mykolaiv Oblast».

Today, there are 10 pyrotechnic units operating in the Mykolaiv region, which are engaged in demining «on the ground» and one diving unit.

According to the State Emergency Service, since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, pyrotechnic and diving teams have removed 149 explosive objects from the reservoirs of the Mykolaiv region. Since the beginning of 2024, sappers and divers have examined 3.11 hectares of water areas and destroyed 8 munitions.

«Most often we find TM-62 under water, it is an anti-tank mine, there were a lot of them in Snihurivka. There were cluster munitions, it was very difficult to extract them from the water, they had to be detonated under water. Cluster munitions are the most difficult to eliminate, they are very dangerous and can detonate at any moment,» said Volodymyr Buzun, a diver-sammer of the State Emergency Service in the Mykolaiv region.

Diver-sapper Volodymyr Buzun. Photo: Olena Kozubovska, NikVesti

NikVesti collected all the necessary information about the types of explosive devices and talked about the rules of behavior in mines in the material «What are mines and what to do if you find a suspicious object? We explain.»

Mine danger in the Mykolaiv region

We will remind you that since the beginning of 2024, 17 people have been blown up by mines in the Mykolaiv region, 4 of them died. 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 (SESU), there were a total of 57 cases of detonation of the civilian population by landmines last year.

The largest number of accidents due to detonations of explosive objects in the Mykolaiv region occurred precisely in the territory of the Sniherivka community.

Previously, NikVesti visited the village of Yevhenivka, where they talked with brothers Igor and Oleksandr Virovkin, who were blown up by landmines during the occupation of the village by the Russian military.

Also, on November 24, 2022, a mine detonation case was recorded in the de-occupied Snihurivka community. As a result, there is a dead and injured among the employees of the State Emergency Service. Later, on December 15, 2022, in one of the villages of the community, a man found two anti-personnel mines left behind by the Russian military. 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. Later, 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 Yevhenivka 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.