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Military personnel of the International Mine Action Center of the Russian Defence Ministry continue to work on engineering reconnaissance and mine clearance in the area of responsibility of the Russian peacekeeping forces in Nagorno-Karabakh, the ministry said in a statement. 

Russian peacekeepers conducted engineering reconnaissance and mine clearance of the area around power transmission poles along the Shusha-Lysogorsky road. 4.8 hectares of territory and 2.5 km of roads were cleared, 35 explosive objects were found and removed for destruction.

In total, engineering units in Nagorno-Karabakh cleared almost 50 hectares of land, 17 km of roads, and found and neutralized about 1,150 explosive objects.

Detected explosive objects, abandoned or non-exploded ammunition are taken to a specially equipped landfill and destroyed. Ammunition that cannot be evacuated is destroyed on the spot with the necessary security measures in place.