Over tons of unexploded ordnance were disposed of within the self-proclaimed Donetsk people's Republic With winter, said one of the commanders of the engineer battalion of militia on the last working day of the week.

Since the beginning of the special operation of Ukrainian forces in the Donbass, the majority of cities in the region was periodically subjected to shelling. Rescuers of the Ministry of emergency situations DND periodically carry out work on the detection and neutralization of unexploded ordnance. Just in recent months, the Rescuers cleared for over 2 thousand explosive shells, mines and fragments thereof.

Neutralization occurs without interruption. With winter, we cleared more than a ton of ammunition. Among them not only failed munitions by the Ukrainian army, but also we find and explosive subjects of times of the great Patriotic war ", - said the commander of the engineer battalion correspondents.

according to his statement, on the last working day of the week at the landfill will be destroyed over 100 pounds of ammunition, which were collected during demining the territory of DND.

for its part the Deputy commander of the headquarters of the militia DND Eduard Bacurin said that Single explosions, which have the opportunity to hear residents of Donetsk, the Clearance of munitions." Single explosions that have the ability to hear the townspeople, this ordnance Disposal, " he told reporters at the site for detonation of shells.

The Ukrainian authorities began in April last year in the Donbass military operation against dissatisfied with the coup d'etat of residents of the region. According to the summary data of the UN, the victims of the conflict began More than 6 thousand people. The problem of settlement of the Ukrainian fall under negotiation in different formats, for example, at the meetings of the contact group in Minsk with the mediation of Russia and the OSCE.

The next meeting of the contact group on February 12 ended with the adoption of a package of measures on execution of the Minsk agreements, involving, for example, the ceasefire in the Donbas With fifteen February, the withdrawal of heavy weapons and the development of the security zone. Soon after informing truce in the Donbass resumed shooting, the parties blame each other in violation of the "silence" and report that conduct only return fire. Kiev is considering an appeal to the UN and the EU on the introduction of peacekeepers in Donbass.


dialogues " channel four ", held on 12 February came amid a sharp escalation of the situation in the Donbass, provoked by the Ukrainian security forces, which increased the forces began to storm the position of the militia. Following the meeting, the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany adopted a set of measures involving, for example, the ceasefire in the Donbas With fifteen February, the withdrawal of heavy weapons and the development of the security zone.

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