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About 100 thousand wartime mines disabled in Russia annually

Tags: Great Patriotic War , Military news, News, Russia
 
Mar 13, 2010 16:52 Moscow Time
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About 100 thousand mines and bombs from the years of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45 are neutralized on former battlefields in Russia annually. According to the Chief of the Engineering Corps’ Training Center, Colonel Vasily Kondratyuk, the bulk of unexploded mines on the territory of the former Soviet Union had been neutralized before 1970. All in all, more than 70 million munitions have been extracted on the scenes of war battles. Colonel Kondratyuk says mines that have been buried underground are difficult to defuse and the fact that explosives fizzle out over time does not make them less dangerous.

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