On September 16, navy sailors destroyed a sea mine that had been washed up on the coast in Odesa region by a storm the night before.
According to the Navy's press service, the mine was shot with a machine gun in compliance with all safety measures and isolation of the explosion site.
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The fact is that bad weather was raging all night and part of the day in Odesa region. The head of the Odesa Regional State Administration, Oleh Kiper, even blamed the city authorities for the flooding of Odesa streets during the last downpour.
The Odesa region was affected by Cyclone Boris, which has also been raging since September 12 in other countries of Central and Eastern Europe. In Poland, water has flooded the Lower Silesian and Opole voivodeships. Silesian and Lesser Poland are under the threat of flooding, and in Romania, four people were killed and thousands of homes destroyed. In the Czech Republic, the Jesenice and Opava regions are at risk of flooding.
Sea mines have been brought to the coast less frequently than in 2022. For example, the last time a munition was found, navy sailors reported it on August 4.
Earlier, an anti-ship mine that had been torn off its anchor was blown to the beach in Odesa by a storm on March 28, where it exploded.
On March 27, the military reported that in Mykolaiv region, in the coastal zone of the Dnipro-Bug estuary, the body of a man with no signs of life and a mine-blast amputation of his lower limbs was found. It was established that, ignoring the warning signs of danger, the local resident went to the coast to the water's edge, where he probably encountered an explosive object. The explosion caused life-threatening injuries to the man.
In early March , sappers destroyed riverine mines thrown onto the Odesa coast by a storm twice within a week.
