Sappers of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the LPR inspect the territory of the Luhansk TPP. File photoMOSCOW, June 21About 30,000 explosive ordnances have been defused in the LPR and DPR, today alone — 223, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation, said on Tuesday. of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia carry out the tasks of cleaning the territory of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics from explosive objects.In total, 3,474.8 hectares of territories were checked (including 24.72 hectares per day), 35 buildings (of which 13 are socially significant objects), two bridges and 9.64 kilometers of roads. 28,921 explosive objects were detected and neutralized, including 223 in a day,» Mizintsev said. 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.
