“From the beginning of work in the Luhansk People’s Republic, 50 hectares of territory have been surveyed,” RIA Novosti quotes the words of the commander of Russian sappers with the call sign “Lex”.

According to him, about 500 explosive objects were neutralized.

Earlier, Oleg Kryuchkov, adviser to the head of Crimea on information policy, explained that pops were heard in Armyansk in the north of the peninsula, as sappers in the Kherson region were clearing mines and destroying Ukrainian ammunition.