15 children have been killed by explosive devices since the start of the full-scale invasion

Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation on the territory of Ukraine, 303 people have died from explosive devices, including 15 children.

Serhiy Reva, deputy director of the Department of Mine Action Measures of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, told about this during the briefing.

According to his information, during this time 703 people were injured, including 81 children.

“As a result of the aggression of the Russian Federation, 24% of the territory of the state, which is 144 thousand square kilometers, is estimated to be potentially dangerous and requires examination and demining, of which 13.5 thousand square kilometers are water areas,” Serhiy Reva clarified.

He also added that about 200 pyrotechnic units are involved in demining every day, which is more than 1.2 thousand people and more than 100 units of special equipment.

The main efforts of sappers of the State Emergency Service are currently focused on demining de-occupied territories in the Kharkiv, as well as Donetsk, Kherson, and Mykolaiv regions.

“At the moment, priority is given to settlements, roads, critical and transport infrastructure and agricultural land. As for the time intervals, we will work until we find all the explosive objects,” Reva explained.

In addition, mechanized demining machines are involved in demining, of which 48 units are equipped.

In addition, with their help, almost 1.8 thousand hectares of territories have already been cleaned.

In Kharkiv Oblast, 570,000 hectares of land remain potentially mined. At the current pace, the complete demining of the region will take more than 100 years, said Yevhen Ivanov, Deputy Chief of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration.

Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, about 25,000 hectares of Kharkiv region have been demined, but 40% are still contaminated.

Therefore, employees of the State Emergency Service continue their work, and explosive objects may still be found in the Kharkiv region. Therefore, this service urges you to observe the necessary safety measures.