Huge unexploded bomb removed from Ukrainian flats destroyed by Russian forces
Watch: Huge unexploded bomb removed from flat in Ukraine
This is the tense moment a large unexploded Russian bomb was delicately removed from a block of flats in a city in Ukraine.
The discovery was made as Russian forces continue to strike residential areas of Ukraine as part of its ongoing invasion.
The unexploded device landed in an apartment block in the city of Chernihiv.
It was extracted by Ukrainian bomb disposal experts, who used a crane to carry the bomb out of the damaged building and on to the back of a lorry.
Video footage of the operation was posted on Twitter by the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (DSNS).
In a tweet posted on Sunday, it said three OFAB-500 air bombs were removed “with precision and care” from residential areas in Chernihiv in one day.
The city, 80 miles north of the capital Kyiv, has been a regular target for Russian bombings.
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Last week, Russia admitted using a thermobaric “vacuum” bomb in the city, which has been under fire since the beginning of the Russian invasion.
Ukraine claims that 47 civilians - some of them queuing for bread - were killed in a Russian strike in Chernihiv on 3 March.
Meanwhile, at least two people died and 12 were injured following a Russian air strike on a residential building in the Obolon district of Kyiv, it was reported on Monday.
At least 35 people were killed in a Russian air strike on a Ukrainian military base outside the city of Lviv, close to the Polish border, on Sunday.
About 30 Russian cruise missiles were fired at the Yavoriv training base, Ukrainian officials claimed.
Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky warned it was “only a matter of time” before the Nato alliance was struck following the attack, less than 15 miles from the border with Nato member Poland.
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On Monday, UK health secretary Sajid Javid said he believed a direct attack on a Nato member was still “very unlikely”, but warned it would trigger a response from the alliance, which has a policy of mutual defence.
Javid told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “We’ve made it very clear to the Russians even before the start of this conflict.
“Even if a single Russian toecap steps into Nato territory, then it will be considered an act of war.”
The attack on the Yavoriv base, which has previously been used by Nato to train Ukrainian soldiers, was one of the western-most targets struck by Russia during the invasion.
