Almost 35 thousand explosives defused the State service for emergency situations in Eastern Ukraine since July 2014, said at the time acting head of the Ministry Zoryan Shkiriak.

first Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk ordered the interior Ministry and the foreign Ministry to sign up to international organizations for financial assistance for creating the service of humanitarian demining, which will coordinate actions for explosive ordnance disposal in the Donbass.

"Only since July 6 2014 after starting work offices SSES in liberated from terrorists areas have been cleared of Almost 35 thousand explosives. More than 1,800 hectares of land have been checked on these things, " said Shkiriak in conversation

He said that currently in the region of the force special operations may be about 75 thousand bombs, mines and other devices.

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.


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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