Mines were in furniture and household appliances - explosive technician told about demining of territories (photo)

The explosive traps were disguised in furniture and equipment and could detonate at any moment. The first combat mission during the full-scale invasion for Andriy Volyanyuk was demining Kyiv Region. The policeman recalls how much he was shocked by the disfigured streets, houses, destroyed infrastructure. This was reported by the press service of the National Police.

When we talked to people, they were crying, telling about the horrors the orcs were doing," Andriy Volianyuk said.

The explosive technician said that the scale of mined areas, shells, mortar, anti-personnel, anti-tank mines, engineering munitions, submunitions, which from multiple rocket launchers scattered "Grad", "Uragan", "Smerch" and dotted residential neighbourhoods, fields - it all seemed unreal.

During the clean-up of the airport in Gostomel, the amount of ammunition seized was about a hundred a day.

Explosive engineering units disarmed ammunition and traps that were in ordinary chairs, in a printer, under piles of scrap metal, because explosive devices were disguised under them. When unloaded, they could detonate," the policeman told about the booby-trapped buildings of the Main Directorate for National Security and Defence Policy and the Security Service of Ukraine.

He particularly remembered one call in Kherson district, when a local resident was reported to have found a suspicious object.

When we arrived, we saw that it was not an ordinary anti-tank mine, but PTM-4 - a cluster munition. It is fired from "hurricanes" and falls apart," recalls Andrei Volianyuk.

He said that when the vehicles are travelling, the ammunition is magnetised to the bottom and explodes. The explosive technicians decided to destroy it on the spot.