Emergency Service of Ukraine finally managed to extract a 500-kilogram explosive left by russian invaders on the outskirts of Kharkiv.
The FAB-500 air bomb was dropped by a russian aircraft on a residential area called Saltivka on March 19. The next day, rescuers took the trigger out from the bomb, so it was deactivated.
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But they couldn’t set up extraction due to hostilities and repeated shelling of Kharkiv by advancing russian forces. As result, the bomb remained half-buried inside the roof of a high-rise building for three months.
"Now it is relatively calm in the city now which allowed us to do our job. As you can see, it required quite a significant amount of time," said a pyrotechnician as a crane was working beside him.
Along with time, the works require the use of heavy equipment, noted in the press center’s note: a special rescue vehicle, a forklift, a pyrotechnic vehicle, and a heavy truck crane were involved in the "high-risk operation", as well as about ten pyrotechnicians and rescuers.
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