Mortar Bomb event in Zhytomyr Oblast, Ivankovtsi area, Ukraine on Thu 17th May 2018

On May 17, a group of pyrotechnic works from the Directorate of the SES in Zhytomyr Oblast destroyed 2 ammunition from the past wars. The first call came from the village. Ivankivtsi, Lubarsky district. During the execution of the land works on his own plot, the man engaged in interception on an unknown metal object. Assuming it was a projectile, he called the rescuers. SESA experts identified the find as an artillery projectile with a caliber of 152 mm from the past wars. Another message was recorded from. Budichany Chudnivsky district. The tractor driver, upon leaving the field, saw a small pit, next to which was a suspicious object, which turned out to be a mortar mine of 82 mm caliber from the past wars.