Baltic Fleet minesweepers from World War II

The engineering team of the Baltic Fleet minesweeper "PT-273" destroyed a World War II-era mine, discovered on Tuesday at the mouth of the Kaliningrad Canal in the city of Baltiysk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia.

Illustration: Sputnik.

Baltic Fleet spokesman Captain Vladimir Matveev told reporters about this news.

"At this point, the canal is open for safe navigation, there is no threat," Matveyev said.

During World War II, from 1944 to 1945, fierce battles took place in the present-day Kaliningrad Oblast (formerly East Prussia Oblast). Bombs and mines are still buried underground, and sometimes mines from the sea still drift ashore.

According to Sputnik