Vulture2k t1_jd2hml2 wrote on March 21, 2023 at 11:16 AM

Reply to comment by BadReview8675309 in EU agrees to send Ukraine one million artillery shells by FuckYouReddiit

more worried about duds they will find for many many years. i imagine its not as bad anymore as in ww1 and ww2 but many countries that participated in the world wars still find duds to this day during construction work or agriculture.

OceanIsVerySalty t1_jd2it3a wrote on March 21, 2023 at 11:29 AM

France still has areas you can’t go into because of the unexploded ordinances. It’s not just a few duds that pop up now and then, there’s areas so peppered with them that people can’t safely use that land.

njmidk t1_jd2xqzc wrote on March 21, 2023 at 1:41 PM

And parts are heavily contaminated to this day

Pyjama_Llama_Karma t1_jd4cimh wrote on March 21, 2023 at 7:13 PM

Zone rouge

RNBQ4103 t1_jd3iwva wrote on March 21, 2023 at 4:06 PM

Finding ordnance is still common in Belgium, France and Germany.

Vulture2k t1_jd3j05c wrote on March 21, 2023 at 4:06 PM

That's what I said. Or at least I tried.

RNBQ4103 t1_jd3mdq2 wrote on March 21, 2023 at 4:28 PM

I had the impression that your comment was not showing the actual scale of the problem (closing a city center because a 500kg bomb was found is still barely news).