Kyiv claims that 174,000 km2 of Ukraine’s territory is mined or contaminated with unexploded ordnance. Ukraine is now more heavily mined than Syria, Afghanistan, and countries in Africa and the Balkans.
Photo. State Emergency Service of Ukraine
Kyiv estimates that 6 million Ukrainians live in areas where they are at risk of death or injury from landmine explosions. The World Bank has estimated the cost of demining Ukraine at 38 billion USD. Ukraine’s defensive war against the Russian Federation, ongoing since 2014 (when the resurgence in the use of mines was first observed), has confirmed that…