Ukraine Sends Peacekeepers to South LebanonThe second group of 60 Ukrainian servicemen left the Lymanske military airfield, in the southern region of Odesa, on Thursday for a peacekeeping mission in South Lebanon, according to the press service of the Defense Ministry.The first group, a mine-clearing platoon of 50 soldiers, had left on June 27 for checking on the sites of deployment of the Ukrainian contingent and examining the patrolling routes. The main tasks of the Ukrainian contingent of 650 in South Lebanon are maintaining civil peace, paving gravel roads, laying engineering communications, building reservoirs and mine-clearing. |
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