UKRAINE, KHARKIV OBLAST, Oct 18 — On October 17, a mine explosion killed a 44-year-old man in the village of Vasyshcheve, Bezliudivka community, reported Oleh Syniehubov, governor of Kharkiv Oblast.
Towns and villages of the Kharkiv Oblast come under massive Russian artillery shelling and air strikes often, even more so since Russia launched a new ground offensive north and northeast of the region in the Vovchansk and Lyptsi directions in May.
Oleh Syniehubov said that the 44-year-old man died as a result of his injuries.
The Department of Civil Defense of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration reported that from October 9 to October 16, sappers demined more than 267 hectares of the Kharkiv region. In total, the experts defused 1,494 explosive devices.
Over the past week, the pyrotechnic units inspected over 217 hectares of agricultural land, nearly two and a half miles of highways, over eight miles of power lines, and five facilities.
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- Since the start of the full-scale invasion, the Russian mine explosions have killed 128 Ukrainian farmers, the Verkhovna Rada reports.
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