- Ukraine: Halo Trust landmine charity to double workforce
February 11, 2023
The world’s largest land mine charity, the Halo Trust, is doubling its workforce in Ukraine this year to clear areas of explosives. The Scotland-based charity said it was undertaking a “huge” training programme to expand its staff to around 1,200. Read more… Source: BBC News Related story: Humanitarian demining center to be created in Ukraine
- Ukraine: Bomb engineers destroy hundreds of munitions at Mariupol plants
February 9, 2023
Bomb engineers of the Donetsk People’s Republic have destroyed hundreds of munitions at major industrial plants in Mariupol, commander of a mine clearing platoon of the First Army Corps who goes by the call name Prizrak, or Ghost, told TASS on Thursday. “Several hundred munitions have already been destroyed. There are different categories of munitions. A ...
- Nord Stream Attack: Senator Raises Alarms About Alleged U.S. Involvement
February 9, 2023
A U.S. senator is concerned that if allegations about the United States sabotaging Russian natural gas pipelines are true, he and his colleagues weren’t aware of the plan. The U.S. continues to deny that it had any involvement in the damage to Russia’s Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 pipelines in September. Read more… Source: Newsweek
- UK: Homes evacuated after unexploded World War II bomb is found in Great Yarmouth
February 8, 2023
A major incident has been declared with roads completely cut off and residents advised to evacuate their homes in Norfolk after a suspected unexploded World War Two device was found on Tuesday. Army specialists have been moved into the area where a 400metre cordon has been put in place after the device was found on Tuesday ...
- UK: Houses evacuated and roads closed after man arrested for explosives offences in Derbyshire
February 4, 2023
Houses were evacuated and nearby roads closed after a man was arrested on suspicion of explosives offences in Derbyshire. Officers attended an address in Acorn Drive in Belper just after 6pm on Friday after officers were called to reports of a concern for the safety of a man. Read more… Source: Sky News
- Ukraine: Car blast in Energodar kills police officer
February 3, 2023
A police officer died as a result of a car explosion in Energodar, the police department of the Zaporozhye Region reported on Friday. “The police department of the city of Energodar in the Zaporozhye Region received a message that a car exploded on one of the streets. Preliminarily it has been established that as a result ...
- Borrell announces provision of EUR 25 mln to Ukraine for mine clearance of territories
February 3, 2023
Head of EU diplomacy, Josep Borrell, announced in Kyiv on Friday “on the sidelines” of the EU-Ukraine summit on the allocation of EUR 25 million for the clearance of territories under Ukrainian control, the European Union External Action Service (EEAS) has reported. “We will provide up to EUR 25 million to support demining efforts in these ...
- Sweden: Blast outside nightclub in central Gothenburg
February 3, 2023
A glass door was damaged, spreading glass splinters, police press spokesperson Fredrik Svedemyr told TT newswire. “Other than that, I haven’t received any information that there has been any worse damage,” he said. Sweden’s gang criminals have in recent years been using explosives stolen from building sites or purchased illegally, and sometimes hand grenades, to target ...
- Lithuanian, Czech chiefs of defense agree on further cooperation
February 2, 2023
Lithuania’s Chief of Defense Lieutenant General Valdemaras Rupsys and Major General Karel Rehka, Chief of the General Staff of the Czech Armed Forces, have agreed on further cooperation, the Lithuanian military said on Tuesday. “We agreed to expand military cooperation in the field of CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear security) by participating in collective level ...
- Ukraine: Banned Landmines Harm Civilians
January 31, 2023
Ukraine should investigate its military’s apparent use of thousands of rocket-fired antipersonnel landmines in and around the eastern city of Izium when Russian forces occupied the area, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch documented numerous cases in which rockets carrying PFM antipersonnel mines, also called “butterfly mines” or “petal mines,” were fired into Russian-occupied ...
- Italy on alert as anarchists attack diplomatic missions
January 31, 2023
Italy’s government has increased security at its diplomatic missions around the globe in response to “a crescendo of terroristic attacks” by an informal anarchist network acting in solidarity with an imprisoned Italian militant, the foreign minister said Tuesday. Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani cited nearly a dozen attacks since the end of November, ranging from vandalism to ...
- Human Rights Watch urges investigation of alleged use of land mines by Ukraine
January 31, 2023
A human rights group says it has documented “numerous cases” of Ukrainian forces firing land mines into territory that was controlled at the time by Russia. In a new report, Human Rights Watch suggests that Ukraine scattered so-called petal mines in and around the eastern Ukrainian city of Izium. Petal mines are prohibited under the 1997 ...
- Cyprus: Arrest over illegal explosives
January 30, 2023
Police in Famagusta on Monday arrested a 23-year-old man for illegal explosives possession. They had obtained a warrant to search the suspect’s home, where they found 14 commercial and five homemade firecrackers, three bundles of fuse, gunpowder and various instruments needed to manufacture explosives. Read more… Source: Cyprus Mail
- Walls, Mines and Motivated Men: Ukraine’s Border With Belarus
January 27, 2023
The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) are currently bracing themselves for any potential Russian offensive, with Belarusian troops, all along Ukraine’s northwestern border, a heavily forested area full of forbidding wetlands, as well as the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone. Among the many interesting things to see was the wall being built in the north, along the border. ...
- Cyprus: Syrian man sentenced over electronic training activity for possible terrorism-related crimes
January 26, 2023
A Limassol district court has sentenced a 26-year-old Syrian man to two years in prison in connection with electronic training activity for possible terrorism-related crimes. The defendant had been remanded in the island’s Central Prison since July 2021, Philenews reported on Thursday citing insiders. Read more… Source: In Cyprus
- Spain: Elderly man arrested over high-profile letter bomb attacks
January 25, 2023
Spanish police have arrested a 74-year-old man on suspicion of sending letter bombs to high-profile targets, including the country’s prime minister. The man was reportedly taken into custody in the town of Miranda de Ebro the north of Spain and is due to appear in court later this week. Read more… Source: BBC News
- Belgium: Over 120 kg of explosives used in Brussels attacks, court learns
January 24, 2023
The Brussels Court of Assizes, which is currently presiding over the trial of suspects involved in the Brussels terror attacks at the Maelbeek metro station and Zaventem Airport, listened to the testimony of an expert who was able to trace the equipment used by the IS militants in their 2016 attack. The investigators revealed the detailed ...
- UK: WW2 explosive found under empty house at Isleham Marina
January 24, 2023
The unexploded mortar round was found under a vacant property at the Isleham Marina. Officers were on scene by 1.15pm the same day and soon had an Explosive Ordnance Disposal team from Colchester on location to remove it. Read more… Source: ELYSTANDARD
