Three men seriously wounded in mine explosions in LPR over 24 hours

Three men have suffered serious injuries in mine explosions in the Lugansk People’s Republic over the past 24 hours, the LPR Emergencies Ministry press service reported.

 

“On May 1, two men, aged 60 and 45 triggered an anti-personnel mine in the Bolshaya Vergunka settlement on the bank of the Seversky Donets river,” the press service said. “They were rushed to the Lugansk Republican Clinical Hospital with traumatic foot amputations.”

 

In another incident which occurred outside the Donetsky neighborhood in the Kirovsky district on Monday afternoon, a 38-year-old man was wounded in UXO explosion. He was admitted to the Kirovsk Central Hospital with traumatic foot amputation and blast injuries, the Ministry said citing a police report.

 

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The Ukrainian government launched the so-called anti-terrorist operation against Donbass in April 2014.  The peace talks failed to reach tangible results due to Kiev’s position to settle the conflict by force.

The Lugansk People’s Republic acceded to Russia on September 30, 2022 following the unification referendum.*i*ie