Tractor hits Ukrainian land mine in Lugansk

Lugansk, Lugansk People’s Republic. Footage is graphic, contains disturbing images. Video courtesy LNR ministry of state security (MGB)

In Perevalsk district near the village Fashchevka April 24 at 11.15 hours, a tractor with a trailer was blown up by a Ukrainian land mine.

During the post explosion investigation, the Ministry of State Security officials established that while harvesting a forest plant near the village of Faschevka, a tractor with employees of the Shterovsky lumber collective in the Lugansk district was blown up after running over an anti-tank mine. As a result, one employee was killed, five were injured and hospitalized.

According to preliminary data, this antitank mine was installed by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in 2014 during the occupation of Chernukhino and nearby villages. The collected materials are attached as evidence to the criminal case on the fact of the planning, preparation, unleashing and waging of the aggressive war by the representatives of Ukraine, the investigation of which is carried out by the MGB of the People’s Republic of Lugansk.