In Mykolaiv region, two children were blown up on a mine

In Bashtansky district of Mykolaiv region on Sunday, 15 October, children exploded on a mine. A 14-year-old boy was killed and his 120-year-old friend was injured. This was reported by Interior Minister Igor Klymenko in Telegram.

Children were playing in the field behind the village. Previously, there were active hostilities on this territory," said the Minister.

Klymenko noted that 248 people had been killed and 525 injured since the beginning of the full-scale invasion due to explosive blasts.

He added that many hectares of land in Ukraine still remain mined.

In April, the total area to be demined in Ukraine was estimated at 174,000 square kilometres, and it has continued to increase since then. Ukraine's mined areas include both de-occupied and temporarily occupied territories. The mined territories are equivalent in area to half of Germany, a third of France, eight Israel or four Estonia.

Kharkiv and Kherson regions are called the most dangerous.

If you find a suspicious object that looks like a mine or unexploded ordnance, first of all:

• stop;
• if there are other people around you, loudly announce the danger and ask everyone to stop;
• check carefully for wires, ropes, stretching ropes or other suspicious objects;
• try to move away calmly to a safe distance, preferably along the route you took earlier;
• the place where the suspicious object was found should be memorised and, if possible, protected from casual passers-by;
• inform the rescuers about the discovery.