Servicemen of a unit of an engineering and sapper brigade of the Russian Armed Forces during the demining of anti-tank mines. File photoMOSCOW, May 23.Russian engineering troops have neutralized nearly 10,000 explosive ordnances in the DPR and LPR, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation, said on Monday. The Federation and the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia carry out the tasks of cleaning the territory of the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics from explosive objects.In total, 1,623.21 hectares were checked (including 0.03 hectares per day), 35 buildings (of which 13 are socially significant objects); one bridge and 9.64 kilometers of roads. 9,364 explosive objects were found and defused, of which 12 per day,» Mizintsev said at a briefing. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass. 05/23/2022 InfographicView
