Europe

  • Ukraine to resume shipping through canal where dredger exploded

    August 5, 2025

    Ukraine will resume shipping through the Bystre canal in Odesa Oblast effective 6 August, allowing the passage of vessels with a draught of up to 4.5 metres. Ukrainian media outlet AgroWeek Quote: “The Bystre canal was temporarily closed to shipping after a dredger exploded near the town of Vylkove on 23 July. Following this, ...

  • UK: Warning after several suspected bombs found on Holme beach

    August 4, 2025

    People are being warned not to search for bombs on a beach in Norfolk. It follows a spate of suspected bombs being discovered at Holme, near Hunstanton, over the past week. The Hunstanton Coastguard Rescue Team issued the caution after being called to suspected explosives three times in four days. On Wednesday, police, coastguards and the ...

  • Ukrainian sappers to train at Middle East mine action school with funding from Paris

    August 4, 2025

    Ukraine will take another step toward the safe de-occupation and clearing of war remnants. On 4 August, Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense announced that sappers from the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the State Special Transport Service will be trained at the Regional School for Humanitarian Demining at the Lebanese Mine Action Center. The program will be funded ...

  • Ukraine: Over 5,000 hectares cleared of explosives in de-occupied territories in July

    August 3, 2025

    In July, demining units of Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense cleared 5,136 hectares of territory liberated from Russian occupation. This information was provided by the Main Department of Mine Action, Civil Protection, and Environmental Safety on Telegram, as reported by Ukrinform. The cleared areas included 4,850.46 hectares of agricultural land, 10.06 kilometers of highways, 0.6 kilometers of ...

  • IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine – Update 307

    August 2, 2025

    The IAEA team at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) heard explosions and saw smoke coming from a nearby location where the plant said one of its auxiliary facilities was attacked today, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said. The IAEA team was informed by the ZNPP that the facility was struck by shelling and drones from ...

  • Mexican cartels using Ukrainian frontline to learn more about drone warfare

    July 31, 2025

    Mexican cartel operatives are understood to have joined Ukraine’s frontline so that they can learn advanced drone training to deploy against rivals and US security forces back in their homeland. Ukraine’s counterintelligence service confirmed it was currently investigating the potential infiltration of its International Legion, a military unit composed of foreign volunteers, by Latin American drug ...

  • Poland strengthens army with order for 25 US mine-clearing armored vehicles

    July 31, 2025

    Poland has signed a $115 million (€100 mln) deal for 25 US armored vehicles used for clearing minefields and fortifications, the Polish defense ministry has said. The purchase of the M1150 Assault Breacher Vehicles (ABV), signed on Thursday, is tied to a January 2023 agreement between Poland and the US for the delivery of 116 American ...

  • Belarus launches criminal investigation into UAV incident in Minsk

    July 29, 2025

    Preliminary findings indicate that on the night of 29 July, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that had been detected by the Defense Ministry and neutralized by electronic warfare systems crashed without detonation in the courtyard of house No. 72 on Matusevicha Street. The wreckage of the drone damaged several vehicles parked near the house. No casualties ...

  • Ukraine: Storm washes sea mine ashore on Odesa coast

    July 29, 2025

    Recently, during a storm on the coast of the Odesa region, waves washed a naval mine ashore, and the Ukrainian Navy conducted a controlled detonation, the Telegram channel of Ukrainian military reports. “A dangerous object was washed ashore by the waves on the coast of Odesa. After it was discovered by the servicemen of the Ukrainian ...

  • UK: New home for Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal troop

    July 28, 2025

    A specialist Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) troop has moved into its new home at Gamecock Barracks, Nuneaton. The newly-named Nuneaton EOD Troop – formerly Nottingham EOD Troop and part of 721 EOD Squadron Royal Logistic Corps – relocated in July from Chetwynd Barracks in Nottingham to Gamecock Barracks. The Squadron belongs to 11 EOD and Search ...

  • IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine – Update 305

    July 26, 2025

    The IAEA team based at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) has been informed of further military attacks on targets in the city of Enerhodar, where most plant staff live, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said. Earlier today, the IAEA team members were taken to two places in the city to observe damage they were told ...

  • Greece: Bomb explosion targets a prison guard’s home in Thessaloniki

    July 26, 2025

    A bomb explosion targeted the home of the president of the Greek association of prison guards early Saturday morning in the country’s north. The guard, named Konstantinos Varsamis on the association’s website, was left unharmed after about 3 kilograms (about 6.6 pounds) of explosives went off at 2:10 a.m. local time, police said. Two people suffered ...

  • UK: Mortar shell neutralised by controlled explosion on beach north of Lowestoft

    July 26, 2025

    Video showed the moment a mortar shell was destroyed in a controlled explosion on a beach. Gorleston Coastguard said it was called to help bomb disposal experts safely neutralise the device just north of Lowestoft on the Suffolk-Norfolk border on Thursday. ” The shell had been found inland and brought to the beach. However, unexploded ordnance ...

  • Northern Ireland: Police probing arson attack targeting west Belfast home

    July 25, 2025

    A house belonging to a self-styled loyalist pastor has been targeted in an overnight petrol bomb attack. The property, in the Forthriver Road area of Glencairn. belongs to Clifford Peeples, who was jailed for possession of explosives with intent to endanger life in 2001. At the time a pipe-bomb and two hand grenades were found in ...

  • Netherlands: Utrecht apartment buildings evacuated after explosives found in car

    July 23, 2025

    An 18-story apartment building on Beneluxlaan in Utrecht was evacuated on Tuesday evening due to a car containing explosives parked in front of it. The police cleared the buildings and cordoned off the area. The fire brigade also responded to the scene, and a police helicopter circled the neighborhood for a while. The Explosive Ordnance Disposal ...

  • Sweden: Five explosions reported in Malmö over the past week

    July 21, 2025

    Malmö, Sweden has been hit by a wave of bombings – at least five explosions have occurred during the past week. Several residential areas have been damaged, but no one has been arrested yet. Police suspect the incidents are linked to criminal networks. During week 29, several powerful detonations have awakened residents in the southern Swedish ...

  • Ukraine: Warhead of Russian missile defused in Kyiv

    July 21, 2025

    Bomb disposal experts from the State Emergency Service of Ukraine have defused the warhead of a downed Kh-69 missile that Russian forces launched at the capital on the night of 20-21 July. The missile fell near a residential building following yet another Russian air attack and could have detonated at any moment. Bomb disposal experts from ...

  • UK: Controlled explosion carried out after shell found in Old Trafford

    July 20, 2025

    An explosion was carried out after a shell was found in a city centre canal, the Manchester Evening News understands. Police shut off an area near a major tram stop with the bomb squad called to the scene last night (July 19). Emergency services were pictured at the scene next to Cornbrook tram stop, in ...