01:53Mandatory credit: Rosgvardiya
Members of the Russian National Guard's engineering and reconnaissance team were seen dealing with unexploded cluster munitions by controlled detonations in the Kurchatovsky district of the Kursk region, close to the region's nuclear power plant.
Footage published on Wednesday shows the specialists arriving at the site and laying charges to destroy the munitions.
"183 rounds of ammunition were recovered and destroyed by overhead charges. There were no malfunctions. The work was 100 percent completed," said National Guard officer Sergei.
The department reported that a "downed HIMARS MLRS shell was found five kilometres from the nuclear power plant." The location and date of that footage cannot be independently verified.
It follows International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) head Rafael Grossi's visit to the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant on Tuesday, where he warned that Ukraine's incursion into the Kursk region had led to 'concerns about the security and the safety' - and claimed that the 'danger of nuclear accident has emerged'.
Ukrainian forces entered the Kursk region on August 6 in an offensive described by Russian President Vladimir Putin as a 'large-scale provocation'. A counter-terrorist operation regime was introduced in the Kursk, Belgorod and Bryansk regions on August 9, while more than 133,000 people have been evacuated from the Kursk border districts.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky described the attack as 'purely [a] security issue for Ukraine', with fighting ongoing.
Moscow launched a military offensive in Ukraine in late February 2022 after recognising the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR), claiming that Kiev had failed to guarantee their special status under the 2014 Minsk Agreements, and urging Ukraine to declare itself officially neutral and give assurances that it would never join NATO.
Kiev denounced the Russian action as an invasion. Zelensky imposed martial law throughout the country, announcing a general mobilisation, while the EU and the US imposed several rounds of sanctions on Moscow.
Engineers from Russian National Guard disarm unexploded cluster munition near Kursk NPP
Members of the Russian National Guard's engineering and reconnaissance team were seen dealing with unexploded cluster munitions by controlled detonations in the Kurchatovsky district of the Kursk region, close to the region's nuclear power plant.
Footage published on Wednesday shows the specialists arriving at the site and laying charges to destroy the munitions.
"183 rounds of ammunition were recovered and destroyed by overhead charges. There were no malfunctions. The work was 100 percent completed," said National Guard officer Sergei.
The department reported that a "downed HIMARS MLRS shell was found five kilometres from the nuclear power plant." The location and date of that footage cannot be independently verified.
It follows International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) head Rafael Grossi's visit to the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant on Tuesday, where he warned that Ukraine's incursion into the Kursk region had led to 'concerns about the security and the safety' - and claimed that the 'danger of nuclear accident has emerged'.
Ukrainian forces entered the Kursk region on August 6 in an offensive described by Russian President Vladimir Putin as a 'large-scale provocation'. A counter-terrorist operation regime was introduced in the Kursk, Belgorod and Bryansk regions on August 9, while more than 133,000 people have been evacuated from the Kursk border districts.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky described the attack as 'purely [a] security issue for Ukraine', with fighting ongoing.
Moscow launched a military offensive in Ukraine in late February 2022 after recognising the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR), claiming that Kiev had failed to guarantee their special status under the 2014 Minsk Agreements, and urging Ukraine to declare itself officially neutral and give assurances that it would never join NATO.
Kiev denounced the Russian action as an invasion. Zelensky imposed martial law throughout the country, announcing a general mobilisation, while the EU and the US imposed several rounds of sanctions on Moscow.
Mandatory credit: Rosgvardiya
Members of the Russian National Guard's engineering and reconnaissance team were seen dealing with unexploded cluster munitions by controlled detonations in the Kurchatovsky district of the Kursk region, close to the region's nuclear power plant.
Footage published on Wednesday shows the specialists arriving at the site and laying charges to destroy the munitions.
"183 rounds of ammunition were recovered and destroyed by overhead charges. There were no malfunctions. The work was 100 percent completed," said National Guard officer Sergei.
The department reported that a "downed HIMARS MLRS shell was found five kilometres from the nuclear power plant." The location and date of that footage cannot be independently verified.
It follows International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) head Rafael Grossi's visit to the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant on Tuesday, where he warned that Ukraine's incursion into the Kursk region had led to 'concerns about the security and the safety' - and claimed that the 'danger of nuclear accident has emerged'.
Ukrainian forces entered the Kursk region on August 6 in an offensive described by Russian President Vladimir Putin as a 'large-scale provocation'. A counter-terrorist operation regime was introduced in the Kursk, Belgorod and Bryansk regions on August 9, while more than 133,000 people have been evacuated from the Kursk border districts.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky described the attack as 'purely [a] security issue for Ukraine', with fighting ongoing.
Moscow launched a military offensive in Ukraine in late February 2022 after recognising the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR), claiming that Kiev had failed to guarantee their special status under the 2014 Minsk Agreements, and urging Ukraine to declare itself officially neutral and give assurances that it would never join NATO.
Kiev denounced the Russian action as an invasion. Zelensky imposed martial law throughout the country, announcing a general mobilisation, while the EU and the US imposed several rounds of sanctions on Moscow.