The territory of the destroyed Azovstal plant in Mariupol. Archival photoMOSCOW, May 23The Russian Ministry of Defense showed a video of the work of Russian sapper units on engineering reconnaissance and demining from explosive objects on the territory of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol. It follows from the video that more than 100 explosive objects. «The work is proceeding on schedule, the personnel feel confident, they are conducting engineering reconnaissance. At the moment, more than a hundred explosive objects have been destroyed in two days, work continues,» says a serviceman of the engineering regiment. The Ministry of Defense specifies that the enemy mined the entire perimeter of the enterprise and buildings on its territory, sappers detect and neutralize minefields and anti-personnel mine traps, as well as neutralize unexploded ordnance and weapons that pose a danger. Specialized armored demining vehicles are involved in work in the most dangerous areas, the ministry said. At the time of the proclamation of the DPR in 2014, Mariupol, with a population of about 450 thousand people, was the second city of the republic after Donetsk, but in June of the same year, Ukrainian security forces regained control of Mariupol. On May 20, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced the complete liberation of the territory of the Mariupol metallurgical plant «Azovstal» — the underground facilities of the enterprise, in which the Ukrainian military and militants of the Azov regiment were hiding (against whom criminal cases were initiated in the Russian Federation), came under the control of the Russian Armed Forces. In total, according to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, since May 16, more than 2.4 thousand Nazis from the Azov Regiment and the Ukrainian military have laid down their arms and surrendered.A technopark is proposed to be built on the site of the Azovstal plant, Pushilin said
