Two more pyrotechnicians were injured, doctors are fighting for their lives.
On Monday, December 12, 2022, three pyrotechnicians were killed during demining operations in the city of Kostyantynivka, Kramatorsk district, Donetsk region.
According to the State Emergency Service, an explosive object was detonated.
“The tragedy occurred on December 12 during demining operations in the town of Kostyantynivka, Kramatorsk district. There, an explosive device detonated, as a result of which the head of the pyrotechnic works department of the ASO SN Yevhen Sagaida, born in 1998, and the head of the underwater demining department of the ASO SN Oleksandr Kulinich died in 2000 Born in 1979, the senior driver-sapper of the Pyrotechnic Department of the ASO SN of the Main Directorate Maksym Lyzya, born in 1979, said in the message.
The State Emergency Service notes that two more pyrotechnicians were injured. Doctors are fighting for their lives.
Demining of Ukraine
On December 7, a group of policemen from the Cherkasy region blew up in the Kherson region while carrying out a task on mines.
As a result of the explosion, Mykhailo Kuratchenko, head of the National Police Headquarters in the Cherkasy region, bomb technician Ihor Melnyk, dog trainer Serhiy Nenada, and assistant of the duty response sector of the patrol police of the Uman district police department, Vadym Peryzhok, died as a result of the explosion. Four more law enforcement officers were injured.
Earlier it was also reported that the US government will form and finance the work of 100 demining teams in Ukraine by the spring of 2023. The US State Department allocates $91.5 million for training, equipment, and ensuring the work of demining teams in Ukraine.
