A man and a woman were killed in an explosion on the bank of the Seversky Donets river next to the Khristovoye village, Slavyanoserbrsk district, the Lugansk People’s Republic Emergencies Ministry press service reported.
“On July 6, a joint team of Russian and LPR engineers recovered the body of a 55-year-old man and a 41-year-old woman who had been killed in an explosion of an unidentified explosive hazard next to the Seversky Donets river,” the Ministry said.
Earlier, two employees of the LPR’s Republican Power Grid company state unitary enterprises were wounded in an explosion in the same area.
The contact line between the LPR and Ukrainian forces had run through the Seversky Donets area before the beginning of the special operation. The terrain had been extensively mined for several years.
On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a special military operation to protect Donbass residents from Ukrainian aggression. Earlier, LPR and DPR Heads Leonid Pasechnik and Denis Pushilin asked the Russian leader to provide military assistance. On July 3, the LPR militia and Russian armed forces fully liberated the LPR territory from Ukrainian armed formations.
The Ukrainian government launched the so-called anti-terrorist operation against Donbass in April 2014. The peace talks participants have announced ceasefire more than 20 times since the autumn of 2014. Kiev forces regularly violated the truce opening fire with large caliber artillery, mortars and tank guns which were to have been withdrawn from the contact line under the accords. *i*s
