ROSTOV-ON-DON. Oct 11 (Interfax-AVN) - Bomb disposal experts in the Southern Military District have completed over 2,500 requests from military commissariats to render safe explosive items in 2017, the District's spokesperson told Interfax on Wednesday.
"Over the first ten months of the current year, our bomb disposal experts rendered safe and destroyed over 23,000 explosive items, having spent over 5,000 of explosives in the process," the spokesperson said.
These are mainly artillery shells and mortar rounds of varying caliber, anti-tank and anti-personnel grenades and landmines, the spokesperson said.
"Most often requests come from the locations of WWII fierce battles in the Rostov and Volgograd regions, Krasnodar Territory and the Republic of Crimea," the spokesperson said.