Zelenskyy: Over half a million explosive objects cleared in Ukraine

Members of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (SES) and the National Police of Ukraine neutralised more than 480 thousand explosive objects. This work is also being done by other state services and members of military forces.

Source: Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the President of Ukraine, in an evening address to Ukrainians on 12 December

Quote: "Today three of our bomb disposal experts, members of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, died in Donetsk Oblast during mine clearance. My condolences to their families…Doctors are trying to save two more of their colleagues. It happened in the city of Kostiantynivka in the Kramatorsk district. This is one of the territories highly contaminated with Russian mines, trip wires and projectiles which have not exploded.

During the period since 24 February, members of SES alone retrieved over 300-thousand explosive objects. Bomb disposal experts of the National Police of Ukraine retrieved more than 180-thousand of such objects while mine clearance is also being conducted by other state services and the army."

Details: Zelenskyy stated that this is one of the most important issues Kyiv discusses with its partners, as it is crucial "to mobilize as many global resources as possible to defeat the Russian mine terror as soon as possible."

He expressed his gratitude to the countries that make their contribution.

The President also thanked the heroic members of SES, the police and the army who are involved in mine clearance. 

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