/ world today news/ The Russian Ministry of Defense published a video of the work of Russian sappers in Palmyra, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reported on Wednesday (April 6). The mixed team of specialists has the task of detecting and deactivating the explosive devices in the city and its surroundings, as well as the approaches to the historical part. Syria is home to the best civilian demining specialists, the publication notes.
In the first days alone, the sappers surveyed an area of 18 hectares, cleared 1.1 km of roads of mines and neutralized 158 explosive objects. During their withdrawal from Palmyra, the terrorists mined all intersections, electrical and water substations, bakeries and hospitals. Mines are prepared from improvised materials – parts of water pipes filled with explosives. Among them there are homemade anti-tank and cumulative mines with electrodetonators.
Some of the traps were destroyed in place by an explosion. Russian sappers use super-modern equipment: portable selective mine detectors, sensors and non-contact detonators. Demining specialists work with OVR-2 protective equipment, which protects them from bullets and shrapnel.
Along with the people in Palmyra, mine-tracking dogs also work: the technique is a technique, but nothing can replace the fine animal sense, writes “Rossiyskaya Gazeta”.
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