Sappers demining railway tracks. File photoMOSCOW, Aug 18 During demining, the Russian military and rescuers checked more than 18.4 thousand hectares in the territory of the Donbass republics during mine clearance, the head of the Russian Interdepartmental Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response, head of the National Center, said on Thursday at a briefing Defense Command of the Russian Federation, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev. «Demining detachments of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations, the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Donetsk and the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Luhansk People's Republics continue to carry out tasks to clear the republics of Donbass and the liberated regions of Ukraine from explosive objects. In total, 18,400.86 hectares of territory were checked «, — said Mizintsev. He added that in total about a thousand buildings were checked, including 13 socially significant objects, four bridges and about 160 kilometers of roads. At the same time, more than 554,000 explosive objects were discovered and neutralized.
