303 people have been killed by explosive ordnance since the beginning of the Russian invasion
Kyiv • UNN
The State Emergency Service reports 303 deaths, including 15 children, from explosive devices since the start of the full-scale invasion. More than 143,000 hectares of territory have been cleared, and nearly 520,000 explosive devices have been defused.
303 people have been killed by explosive devices since the beginning of the full-scale invasion. Among the dead are 15 children. This was announced by Serhiy Reva, deputy director of the Department of Mine Action of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, during a briefing on Tuesday, UNN reports, citing the SES.
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The SES noted that an area of more than 143 thousand hectares has already been cleared. In particular, almost 520 thousand explosive devices have been defused and more than 107 thousand visits have been made.
In total, as a result of the aggression, 24% of the state's territory, which is 144 thousand square kilometers, is assessed as potentially dangerous and requires survey and demining, of which 13.5 thousand square kilometers are water areas
He also added that the main efforts of the SES engineers are currently focused on demining the de-occupied territories in Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kherson and Mykolaiv regions.
