LUHANSK. April 1 (Interfax) - Russia has delivered an Uran-6 mine clearance robotic system and has dispatched a unit of highly skilled sappers to the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR), LPR head Leonid Pasechnik said.
"It is highly important for us today to clear mines from the territories that are being liberated and from the former line of contact. That's why I have asked the Russian Federation for help," Pasechnik told reporters on Friday.
According to Pasechnik, in response to his request, a unit of highly skilled sappers and an Uran-6 mine clearance robot have arrived in the LPR from Russia.
"This robotic system can make six-meter-wide safe paths through antipersonnel mine fields, thus ensuring the passage of vehicles and tracked hardware, which can then go on and fulfil their missions," the commander of the Russian engineering forces' unit sent to the LPR said.