🇷🇺🇱🇦 Russian Armed Forces' International Mine Action Centre completes mine clearance in Laos
◽️ Military engineers carried out mine clearance in the Nakai district of Khammouane province, located in the central part of the country.
◽️ Since November 2022, the engineers have cleared a total area of 24 hectares in four and a half months. This included rural roads, infrastructure, and administrative buildings.
◽️ 124 unexploded ordnance were found and defused in the cleared area, including U.S. cluster submunitions such as BLU-24, BLU-26, BLU-42, artillery, and mortar shells.
◽️ This year was the fifth time that Russian servicemen have worked in Laos and once again successfully and in a timely manner carried out all the missions assigned.
◽️ The Russian and Lao engineering troops involved in humanitarian demining were awarded state awards of the Lao People's Democratic Republic.
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