A Ukrainian military expert, Candidate of Military Sciences, Doctor of Technical Sciences, professor, former deputy chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Lt. Gen. (Rtd) Ihor Romanenko tells how active military operations in Donbas could be in 2018, according to Glavred.
United Nations reports that this Donbas region is becoming one of the most mined areas in the world, Washington Post reports.
There are no open seats of fire and explosions across the territory of an ammunition depot near the village of Kalynivka of Vinnytsia region, according to the press service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (SESU).
The UK-based non-governmental charity organization The Halo Trust on Monday, August 14, started mine clearance works in the area of the Anti-Terrorist Operation in eastern Ukraine, according to the press service of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry.
Workers of the State Emergency Situations Service of Ukraine have cleared the town of Balaklia and nearby villages in Kharkiv region from unexploded ordnance after an accident at a local military depot late in March.
NATO representatives are arriving in the town of Balaklia, Ukraine, to conduct demining operations in the area where a large-scale fire engulfed a military munitions depot on March 23, head of the Kharkiv regional state administration Yulia Svetlichna said on air of 112 Ukraine TV channel.
The Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Coordination Center has started procedures to provide assistance to Ukraine on humanitarian demining in Balaklia, where on Thursday a large-scale fire engulfed a military munitions depot and mass detonations ensued, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko wrote on Twitter.