Sappers have defused more than 13,800 explosive devices in the Kursk Region since August 2024, the Russian Emergencies Ministry reported. “More than 13,800 explosive devices have been defused, and 418 hectares of territory have been surveyed,” the ministry said.
The destroyed munitions include hand grenades, fuses, anti-tank mines, homemade drones, and submunitions, the latter of which are the most common and can be difficult to see in grass or foliage.
Read more…
Source: TASS News
Sign up for the Counter-IED Report Newsletters
The latest news and insights delivered right to your inbox
Related:
- Ukraine claims to have sunk Russian landing ship in drone attack
February 14, 2024
Ukraine claims to have severely damaged and sunk a Russian landing ship in its latest drone attack against Moscow’s Black Sea fleet. Ukrainian military intelligence released video on Wednesday that it said showed several naval drones approaching the Ropucha-class large landing ship Cesar Kunikov off the coast of Crimea. The drones hit the port side of ...
- Moldova destroyed explosives found in a Shahed drone that strayed from the war in Ukraine
February 12, 2024
Authorities in Moldova said Monday they destroyed explosives discovered in a part of a Shahed drone that crashed on its territory from the war in neighboring Ukraine. Police said that 50 kilograms (110 pounds) of explosives were discovered during an investigation of the Shahed drone parts found on Sunday at a crash site near Moldova’s southern ...
- Sweden Closes Investigation of Pipeline Blasts, but Stays Silent on Cause
February 7, 2024
After investigators delved into a series of undersea explosions that blew apart the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines linking Russia to Western Europe in fall 2022, intelligence agencies came to a general agreement: The evidence pointed toward pro-Ukraine forces, even if the question of who might have been directing them remained a mystery. In Sweden, in ...
- Republic of Georgia says it seized Russia-bound cargo of explosives sent from Ukraine
February 5, 2024
Georgia’s State Security Service said on Monday that it had seized a clandestine shipment of explosives bound for the Russian city of Voronezh from the Ukrainian port of Odesa. The South Caucasus country’s domestic security agency said that the explosives were hidden in a cargo of car batteries that entered Georgia in January overland from Ukraine ...
- Ukraine says it sank Russian warship off coast of Crimea
February 1, 2024
Ukraine’s military intelligence says it sank a Russian warship off the coast of Crimea overnight into Thursday, landing the latest in a series of blows to Russia’s Black Sea Fleet after mounting a “massive” missile attack on the occupied peninsula hours earlier. Russia’s guided missile ship, the “Ivanovets,” suffered multiple hits to its hull before it ...
- Russia’s FSB detains Siberian man for attempted arson attack on defense facility
January 22, 2024
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) apprehended a resident of the Altai Region in Siberia for plotting to commit arson at a Russian defense facility, the regional department of the FSB told TASS. “A Russian citizen born in 1979 who attempted to carry out a terror attack in Barnaul has been detained. As established , ...
- Ukraine digs its own Surovikin line against impending Russian offensive
January 20, 2024
Row upon row of freshly-dug trenches, concrete dragon’s teeth and underground command centres adorn vast expanses of Ukraine’s countryside. The new fortifications have sprung up along key segments of its more than 621 miles of front as Kyiv’s spluttering counter-offensive turned into what military analysts have described as an “active defence”. Defensive preparations were boosted around ...
- Russia’s New FAB-1500 M54 Supersized Glide Bomb
January 12, 2024
The Russian military has offered the first clear look at a new glide bomb conversion kit with pop-out wings for the massive 1,500-kilogram (3,300-pound) class FAB-1500 M54. This weapon is three times larger than the Russian bombs with pop-out wing kits that have already become a major issue for Ukrainian forces and that have prompted notable ...
- Russia: Man detained for sabotage attempt
January 5, 2024
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has detained a Russian national involved in a sabotage attempt at a Defense Ministry’s facility on the instruction of Ukrainian special services, the FSB Center of Public Communications told TASS. Furthermore, it was also ascertained that he was involved in arson attacks against communications and rail infrastructure facilities in Dagestan ...
- Ukraine: 500,000 mines installed, second defense line is built
December 30, 2023
In northern Ukraine, military has laid 500,000 anti-tank mines. A second line of defense is being constructed near the border in case of a potential repeat invasion, reports the press-service of the Joint Forces Operation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Military officials note that since the beginning of June 2022 and until now, over 500,000 ...
- Ukrainian spies vow to stab Russia ‘with a needle in the heart’
December 20, 2023
Ukraine’s spies aim to intensify intelligence operations and conduct sabotage strikes deep in Russian-controlled territory next year to bring the war as close to the Kremlin as possible, the head of Ukraine’s SBU security service told POLITICO. “We cannot disclose our plans. They should remain a shocker for the enemy. We prepare surprises,” Major General Vasyl ...
- Russia: FSB arrests Kaliningrad resident for organizing acts of sabotage across 15 Russian regions
December 7, 2023
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has detained a 21-year-old resident of the Kaliningrad Region, who is charged with organizing arson attacks targeting transport infrastructure in 15 Russian regions early this year, the FSB told TASS. “Between February and March, the suspect recruited people in 15 Russian regions to take part in criminal activity involving committing acts ...
- Russia ‘Fuses’ Thermobaric Warheads On Its Suicide UAVs
December 5, 2023
A photograph appeared on social media on December 3 with a message that suggested that Ukrainian insiders believe Russia had developed a 40-kilogram thermobaric warhead for the Geran-2 or Shahed-136 kamikaze drone, making it analogous to the TOS-1A flamethrower. EurAsian Times could not independently verify these claims when writing this report. However, if the use of ...
- Landmines: New Use Despite Global Ban
November 14, 2023
Russia, Myanmar, and Ukraine have used antipersonnel landmines in the past year, and armed groups used them in at least five countries, Human Rights Watch said today in releasing Landmine Monitor 2023, the annual report about the international treaty to ban landmines. The 120-page Landmine Monitor 2023 is the product of the International Campaign to Ban ...
- IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine – Update 191
October 27, 2023
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) experts have assessed the damage caused by this week’s powerful explosions near Ukraine’s Khmelnitsky Nuclear Power Plant (KhNPP), observing 26 broken windows but reporting no impact on nuclear safety and security at the site, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said today. The IAEA team present at the KhNPP has conducted a ...