470,000 hectares of agricultural land to be inspected as part of mine clearance efforts – Ukraine's Defence Ministry
470,000 hectares of agricultural land in the Ukrainian-liberated territories will be examined under the Mine Clearance Plan.
Source: Ukraine’s Defence Ministry
Details: These are territories in Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, Cherkasy, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, Mykolaiv, Kherson and Kharkiv oblasts.
"Over 1,000 specialists and 17 mechanised mine clearance vehicles from the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the State Transport Special Service, the State Emergency Service, the National Guard, the National Police and mine clearance operators will be involved in this task," the ministry said.
The authority specified that almost 188,600 hectares of agricultural land have been inspected, 124,000 hectares of which need to be cleared.
As part of the operational response, 76,223 hectares have already been cleared, with over 7,800 hectares needing humanitarian mine clearance by relevant operators.
Read also: Decades and billions of dollars. When will Ukrainian fields and cities be cleared of mines?
Background: The Croatian government has donated €1 million for humanitarian mine clearance of Ukrainian agricultural land to help Ukrainian farmers resume work in the areas most affected by explosive remnants of war.
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