Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, 1,083 civilians have been blown up by Russian anti-personnel mines, 333 of them killed. Kharkiv, Kherson and Mykolaiv regions are the most polluted.

Since the large-scale invasion began in February 2022, more than 1,000 people have been blown up by Russian anti-personnel mines in the unoccupied territories. This is reported by the Ministry of Defense, reports UNN.

Since the beginning of the large-scale invasion in the de-occupied territories, 1,083 civilians have been blown up by Russian anti-personnel mines. Of these, 333 were killed and 750 were injured. Kharkiv, Kherson and Mykolaiv regions remain the most polluted liberated territories.,

– reported in the Ministry of Defense.

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It is also noted that in 2024, 35 thousand square kilometers of the territory of Ukraine were marked as not containing evidence of the presence of risks of explosive substances, which made it possible to reduce the area of potentially contaminated territories from 174 thousand to 139 thousand square kilometers.

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The government is working to implement an integrated approach in humanitarian demining. Almost 35.5 thousand square kilometers of Ukrainian land have already been returned to Operation. More than 4 thousand sappers are working on mine clearance in Ukraine.