By KYIV. Dec 9 (Interfax-Ukraine) – One of the charges against Russia will be "mine terror," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video message on Thursday.
“This is the form of Russian terror that will have to be countered for years to come,” he noted. According to Zelensky, “errorists deliberately try to leave behind as many death traps as possible. Buried landmines, tripwire mines, mined buildings, cars and infrastructure.”
“This is more than 170,000 square kilometers of dangerous territory. I am sure: this will be among the charges against Russia for aggression – precisely mine terror. Which is even more cruel and meaner than a missile one, because there is no anti-mine system that could destroy at least part of the threat, as our air defense does,” the president said.
According to him, he has just signed decrees on awarding state awards posthumously to police officers whose lives were claimed yesterday in Kherson region by Russian mines.
The title of Hero of Ukraine was awarded to police colonel Mykhailo Kuratchenko. Orders For Courage – to police captains Ihor Melnyk and Serhiy Nenada and police corporal Vadym Perizhko.
“They did everything for the safety of Ukrainians. Already returning after completing one of the tasks, when they removed weapons and ammunition from the cache of the occupiers, many of which were left in the Kherson region, the policemen stumbled upon a mine trap,” Zelensky said.
