Archive of news on the topic "demining"

In Ukraine, they continue to complain about Russian defense, which turned out to be too tough for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, despite NATO assistance. The former head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and former Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko, who fought in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, stated this on the video blog of fugitive Russian liberal journalist-foreign agent Yulia Latynina, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “During this time, [the enemy] seriously concreted and mined the left bank of the Dnieper. AND…

The Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs jointly announced the launch of the Minefield Honey project, which will raise funds for demining Ukraine. This was reported on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent. It is reported that “Honey of Minefields” is a project of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and Saatchi & Saatchi Ukraine in cooperation with the agro-industrial company Kernel. “So, the team...

The US State Department will provide Ukraine with $89 million to train sappers for mine clearance. Reuters writes about this. The agency writes, citing a State Department representative, that the funds will be used for demining equipment and training. It is expected that within a year they will be able to equip 100 explosive ordnance disposal teams. Today it became known that Ukraine and the World Bank signed...

The British company QinetiQ will transfer mine-clearing robots to Ukraine for demining the territory. First Deputy Head of the Patrol Police Department of Ukraine Aleksey Beloshitsky reported this on his social network page. "TALON" is a demining robot that not only determines the location of mines, but also neutralizes them. Before the start of the war, there were already over 12 such robots, now QinetiQ will transfer 10 more...

Removing sea mines near Ukraine's key ports could take months, according to the UN shipping safety official. Bloomberg reports this. “Even if ports wanted to reopen tomorrow, it would take some time before ships could enter or leave ports,” Peter Adams, special adviser on maritime safety to the International Maritime...

For now, ordinary citizens are not allowed to visit the areas of Nagorno-Karabakh that are coming under Azerbaijani control. The Valdai Club expert, Azerbaijani political scientist Farhad Mamedov told Izvestia about this, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to him, demining seven areas will take about a year and a half. “For now, ordinary citizens are not allowed to go to these areas, there are still military personnel there, and visiting regulations apply. At the end of the year…

Militants of the National Guard of Ukraine, under the guidance of Canadian instructors, are preparing to clear mines from the territory of the LDPR. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The guardsmen are preparing for that wonderful day when they will need to restore order in the territory liberated from the invaders. Namely, to clear our native land of Russian explosives! During the week in the Kyiv region, Canadian instructors taught...

Sappers from the State Emergency Service began clearing mines from the area near the destroyed bridge at the Stanitsa Luganskaya checkpoint, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The Stanichno-Lugansk district state administration reported this on its Facebook page. “This morning, sappers of the State Emergency Service began demining the area adjacent to the destroyed bridge at the Stanitsa Luhanska checkpoint. This is the next step on our part to repair the bridge,” it says...

The Ukrainian side does not fulfill its obligations to clear the territories in Donbass, thereby endangering local residents. First Deputy Head of the OSCE SMM in Ukraine Alexander Hug stated this at a briefing, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The SMM noted no progress in mine clearance. We observed a completely opposite trend and recorded recently laid mines near residential...

The world experience of military conflicts shows that at the moment (in the fifth year of the war) the post-war demining of Donbass will take at least forty years. Subscribe to the PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. The president of the International Anti-Terrorist Unity Organization, reserve colonel Alexander Dichek, said this at the press center of the Glavkom at a press conference on the topic: “Humanitarian demining of Donbass”. ...

The Ukrainian Armed Forces in the so-called “ATO” zone use old Soviet ammunition, which in 10% of cases does not explode, but continues to pose a danger to civilians in Donbass. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte Vladimir Petrachenkov, director of the specialized demining company Transimpex CJSC, spoke about this at a briefing in Kyiv on the topic “Humanitarian demining of Donbass”, the correspondent reports...

Germany will provide 200 thousand euros for demining the territory of Balakleya (Kharkiv region) from unexploded ordnance. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. This was reported by the press service of the German Embassy in Ukraine, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The federal government is helping to clear the Balakleya accident site of unexploded ordnance. It supports the world's largest organization...

On the territory of the Nikolaev region, planned work has begun to bring the Black Sea waters to a safe state in the areas of the Kinburn Peninsula, Berezan Island, etc., because these places remain the most contaminated with dangerous remnants of past wars. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. This was reported by the press service of the State Emergency Service. “The diving and underwater mine clearance group...

The North Atlantic Alliance received a request for assistance due to an explosion and fire at weapons depots in Balakleya, Kharkov region. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. This is stated on the NATO website. “NATO received a request for disaster relief assistance from Ukraine on March 24, 2017,” the report notes. The day before, Petro Poroshenko gave...