The Cabinet of Ministers has started implementing a plan to restore Ukraine. The first stage concerns the safety of citizens. Therefore, pyrotechnics have already cleared more than 80,000 mines, shells and bombs. This was announced by Prime Minister of Ukraine Denis Shmygal,
KYIV. UkraineGate , 15 , April , 2022 | War News .
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“The government has begun implementing a plan to rebuild Ukraine. First of all, it concerns the territories recently liberated from the Russian occupier. The first key point is security. Therefore, the priority is to demine areas where hostilities have taken place. “Our heroes-pyrotechnics have neutralized more than 80,000 of them. Every day 4-5 thousand dangerous objects are neutralized. But, unfortunately, for months, years we will find and neutralize such remnants of” Russian measure “on our land,” Shmygal said.
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According to him, the government has already begun work on establishing an International Demining Center.
“We talked about this with the UN Under-Secretary-General, European leaders and all our partners who visited Bucha and Borodyanka with us. The process of complete neutralization will take time, in some areas it may take months. Ministry of Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories together with the Ministry of Internal Affairs and other ministries, they have to develop a long-term State Mine Action Strategy, “Shmygal said.
He noted that such a strategy should include not only the phased search and disposal of explosives, but should also cover other areas, from schooling to communication campaigns that will explain what these items look like.
“The horror we saw in Irpen, Bucha, Borodyanka, dozens of other villages and towns is indescribable. Our sappers find mined children’s toys, washing machines, sacks of potatoes, playgrounds. Hundreds of streamers are placed in the woods and buried in the fields. “The actions of Russian troops on the territory of Ukraine are pure evil that must be punished and can never be forgiven,” Shmygal said.
According to him, the Ministry of Internal Affairs has already been instructed to increase the number of sappers and rescuers in order to speed up this work.
“But we will have to check thousands of square kilometers of territory, so I ask everyone to be vigilant and responsible,” Shmygal added.
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It was reported that almost half of Ukraine’s territory may need humanitarian demining.
The expert told what stages the algorithm of humanitarian demining of territories provides.
Source: Ukrgate
