Sappers of the International Mine Action Center of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation during demining the central street of Donetsk. File photoMOSCOW, Aug. 9 Demining teams of the RF Armed Forces and the Russian Emergencies Ministry checked more than 7.5 thousand hectares of territory, neutralized more than 248 thousand explosive objects in the DPR and LPR, the head of the Interdepartmental Coordination Headquarters of the Russian Federation for humanitarian response — the head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev. He specified that the demining detachments of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the Russian Emergencies Ministry continue to carry out tasks to clear the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics of explosive objects. «Total checked: 7,539.61 hectares of territory, 718 buildings (of which 13 are socially significant objects), four bridges and 132.7 km of roads. 248,544 explosive objects were detected and neutralized,» the general said.
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