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The Russian military completed a humanitarian mine clearance operation in Laos, the Rossiyskaya Gazeta newspaper writes. The detachment of the international mine action center began work last autumn. Its structure included more than thirty experienced specialists from Russia. Local sappers also worked with them.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the military explored more than ten hectares near Phonsavan, which is located in Xiang Khuang province.
The specialists recovered and neutralized nearly 900 explosive objects in the region. They used the most advanced tools to search. The shells lay at a depth of 40 centimeters to 2,5 meters. For the most part, these are air bombs left over after the United States was bombed by Laos in the sixties and seventies of the last century.
Russian experts also trained local specialists in the use of Russian mine clearing equipment and the protection of a sapper, as well as in the proper procedure for performing mine clearance tasks. The Russians left their equipment to colleagues from Laos.
For the first time, Russian sappers worked in Laos in 2018. In five months, they cleared more than 32 hectares in the jungle.
Russkiy Mir
