01:32Mandatory credit: Russian EMERCOM
Russian explosives experts were seen performing controlled explosions on munitions in the Kursk border region on Friday.
Footage shows the team examining the area using a drone, and detonating one of the devices.
"[The explosives experts] cleared a district of the town of Lgov, which had been hit by HIMARS cluster missiles the day before. The sub-munitions posed a great danger to the town's residents," the Russian Emergencies Ministry reported, adding that power lines were safe and awaiting repairs.
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.
The date of the footage published by the Russian Emergencies Ministry cannot be independently verified.
Russian weapons experts 'dispose of AFU ammunition' in Russia's Kursk region
Russian explosives experts were seen performing controlled explosions on munitions in the Kursk border region on Friday.
Footage shows the team examining the area using a drone, and detonating one of the devices.
"[The explosives experts] cleared a district of the town of Lgov, which had been hit by HIMARS cluster missiles the day before. The sub-munitions posed a great danger to the town's residents," the Russian Emergencies Ministry reported, adding that power lines were safe and awaiting repairs.
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.
The date of the footage published by the Russian Emergencies Ministry cannot be independently verified.
Mandatory credit: Russian EMERCOM
Russian explosives experts were seen performing controlled explosions on munitions in the Kursk border region on Friday.
Footage shows the team examining the area using a drone, and detonating one of the devices.
"[The explosives experts] cleared a district of the town of Lgov, which had been hit by HIMARS cluster missiles the day before. The sub-munitions posed a great danger to the town's residents," the Russian Emergencies Ministry reported, adding that power lines were safe and awaiting repairs.
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.
The date of the footage published by the Russian Emergencies Ministry cannot be independently verified.