MOSCOW, May 20. /TASS/. Russian mine disposal specialists and emergencies ministry’s officers spotted and destroyed 210 explosive objects in the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR) during the past day, Mikhail Mizintsev, the headquarters head and chief of Russia’s National Defense Management Center, said on Friday.
According to Mizintsev, who heads the Russian Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine, Russian specialists continue mine clearance operations in the DPR and LPR. "A total of 1,543.9 hectares have been already been surveyed, including 2.7 hectares, 35 buildings, including two hospitals and two schools, one bridge and 7.6 kilometers of motorways over the past day. As many as 7,596 explosive objects have been spotted and destroyed, including 210 during the past day," he said.
He also said that despite the difficulties and obstacles created by Kiev, during the day, as many as 17,306 people, including 2,213 children, were evacuated from dangerous zones in various Ukrainian regions, and from the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics to Russia without any participation of Ukraine’s authorities.
"Since the beginning of the special military operation, as many as 1,377,925 people, including 232,480 children, have been evacuated," he added.
Apart from that, in his words, during the day, the Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine, federal executive bodies, Russian regions and various public organizations received 102 requests from foreign and Ukrainian nationals for the evacuation to Russia, the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republic, and to Russia-controlled territories in the Zaporozhye, Nikolayev, Kharkov, and Kherson regions. "The database has 2,756,228 such requests from 2,136 Ukrainian settlements," he noted.