Since the beginning of the war in the Donbass mines exploded almost fifty children
Within three years of demining group engineering units APU discovered and cleared 150 thousand explosive objects, three thousand hectares of the territory of Donbass.
About this informed the head of the coordination group for mine action of the ATO headquarters, Colonel Sergei Zubarevsky.
However, it is noted that the heightened level of risk persists in the settlements near the contact line.
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“The so-called “grey zone” to hit a mine anywhere, because the risk can be almost any place on either side of the demarcation line. Since the beginning of the war killed 42 children, and another 109 were injured. For four months of the year because of careless handling of ammunition, six people were killed, three were injured,” – said Zubarevsky.
He also told about the plans for the further cleaning of the territories of Eastern Ukraine from explosives.
“This year we plan to clear another 94 sites, located in 20 kilometers from the contact line. This is more than a thousand hectares”, – he commented.
Earlier it was reported that the Donbas after the war will be defused half a century. In the Parliament are two bills on mine action, which would be particularly attracted to the mine of foreigners. But the people’s representatives – not before. Seem to think that this only applies to a small group of people in the Donbas. In fact, the full clearance will need half a century.