In northern Ukraine, Russian forces dropped and left behind “hundreds of thousands of dangerous objects,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday night, including landmines and unexploded ordnance. “At least several thousand such items are discarded every day,” Zelensky said. “The occupiers left mines everywhere. In the houses they occupied. Just in the streets, in the fields. They mined people’s property, mined cars, doors. They did everything consciously to make the return to these areas after the recapture as dangerous as possible.” In Kharkov, authorities are urging people to stay away from certain neighborhoods in the eastern part of the city, where there are landmines scattered on the streets. Lt. Col. Nikolay Ovcharuk, head of the State Emergency Service’s demining unit, said the plastic devices were PTM-1M mines used by Soviet troops in Afghanistan and fired by timers. Ukrainian officials have accused Russian forces of dropping “parachute bombs” over Kharkov, and a resident who gave his name as Sergei told the Guardian that around 1 a.m. Monday, “we heard some strange noises, something whistled and . “ Zelensky said he believed Ukraine was now “one of the most mine-infected in the world” and considered it a war crime. The Russian forces, he added, “did everything they could to kill or maim as many of our people as possible, even when they were forced to withdraw from our land. Without proper orders, they would not have done so.”
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