MAG receives £5.5m grant for Ukraine from Canadian government

MAG (Mines Advisory Group), the global landmine charity, is to receive a new grant of 10 million Canadian dollars (or £5.5m) to support its work in Ukraine until April 2026. The Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, announced a series of Read More …

Russian authorities detain man in connection with car blast that killed Russian officer in Donetsk

A man has been apprehended in Donetsk on suspicion of planting a bomb under a Russian officer’s car, while working for Ukrainian intelligence, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has said. The vehicle exploded in the main city of Russia’s Donetsk Read More …

Ukraine: Bomb disposal experts dispose of FAB-500 aerial bomb in Donetsk Oblast

Bomb disposal experts of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine have seized and destroyed a FAB-500 aerial bomb in the village of Malynivka in Pokrovsk district, Donetsk Oblast. It is noted that the bomb was found during an examination of Read More …

Ukraine: Bomb disposal experts defuse 250-kilogram air bomb in Donetsk Oblast

The State Emergency Service of Ukraine (SES) bomb disposal experts have defused a 250 kg high-explosive air bomb that fell on the grounds of a household in Kostiantynivka, “A 250 kg high-explosive air bomb was removed by SES bomb disposal Read More …

Artillery-Delivered Mine Systems Are Key In Ukrainian Defense

While drones, electronic warfare, and artillery have played significant roles throughout the Russia-Ukraine war, many battlefield outcomes have been decided by a different technology: mines. As Western-provided ammunition starts to arrive at the Ukrainian frontlines, the 10,000 Remote Anti-Armor Mine Read More …

Ukraine: US mine-clearing vehicle M1150 ABV falls into Russian possession

In a recent development, military assets of the Armed Forces of Ukraine [AFU], supplied by the United States, have reportedly ended up in Russian hands. Russia’s TASS news agency broadcast a video showing the retrieval and subsequent storage of three Read More …

Greece joins coalition to help Ukraine with mine clearance

Greece has joined a coalition led by Lithuania and Iceland to help Ukraine with mine clearance. This was announced by Lithuanian Defense Minister Arvydas Anušauskas following a meeting with his Greek counterpart Nikos Dendias in Vilnius. The ministers also discussed Read More …

Ukraine lost M1150 Assault Breacher Vehicle outside Avdiivka

Ukraine has lost only a few armored vehicles in its grueling defensive fight in—and now outside of—Avdiivka, a former Ukrainian stronghold just northwest of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. But a few doesn’t mean none. And one of the losses is Read More …

Ukraine digs its own Surovikin line against impending Russian offensive

Row upon row of freshly-dug trenches, concrete dragon’s teeth and underground command centres adorn vast expanses of Ukraine’s countryside. The new fortifications have sprung up along key segments of its more than 621 miles of front as Kyiv’s spluttering counter-offensive Read More …

Ukraine’s counteroffensive inches forward, with the help of cluster bombs

Ukrainian marines have advanced for the second time in two weeks on the southeastern frontlines, towards the key port city of Mariupol, with the recapture of the village of Urozhaine appearing to have been partially aided by the Ukrainian use Read More …

Ukrainian army continues to use cluster munitions to shell Donetsk

Ukraine’s armed forces shelled Donetsk with cluster munitions for the second time in one evening, the mission of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to Ukrainian War Crimes (JCCC) reported. Read More …

Over 120 people wounded by Lepestok in Donetsk People’s Republic

  More than 120 people, including 10 children, received various injuries after stepping on Lepestok anti-personnel landmines in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), acting DPR head Denis Pushilin told TASS on Saturday. The latest incident involving a Lepestok anti-personnel landmine Read More …

Ukraine: Over 200 antipersonnel mines destroyed by Russian bomb specialists in Donetsk

Russian emergencies ministry’s bomb specialists have defused 201 Lepestok antipersonnel mines in Donetsk’s Petrovsky district, the ministry said on Tuesday. “During the day, bomb specialists of the emergencies ministry destroyed 201 Lepestok antipersonnel mines. The work was complicated by shelling Read More …

Ukraine: Three bomb disposal experts dead and two injured during mine clearance in Donetsk Oblast

Three bomb disposal experts from the Ukrainian State Emergency Services (SES) were killed on 12 December during a mine clearance operation in the city of Konstiantynivka, Donetsk Oblast. Doctors are currently battling to save two other emergency workers. “The excruciating Read More …

Ukraine: Russian troops use Uran-6 robot to clear PFM-1 “Lepestok” anti-personnel mines scattered in Donetsk city

Russian troops use Uran-6 unmanned ground vehicle to clear PFM-1 “Lepestok”/”Petal” anti-personnel landmines scattered around Donetsk city and surrounding areas. According to local reports several rockets with PFM-1 landmines were fired at Donetsk city which resulted in wide area contamination Read More …

Ukraine: ‘Thermite Munitions’ Rain from Sky on Donetsk in Striking Videos

Videos circulating on social media purport to show thermite munitions raining down from the sky in Donetsk, a city in eastern Ukraine. Since April, Russia has concentrated on capturing the Donetsk and Luhansk provinces that make up the Donbas region, Read More …

Ukraine: ‘Exploiting Cadavers ’and ‘Faked IEDs’: Experts Debunk Staged Pre-War ‘Provocation’ in the Donbas

With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine ongoing, it’s easy to forget the flurry of dubious provocations and staged events that appear to have been designed to implicate the Ukrainian armed forces and drum up military aggression in the days before the Read More …

Ukraine: Car that blew up in Donetsk belongs to militia official

The car that exploded near a government building in downtown Donetsk belongs to Denis Sinenkov, the chief of a department at the militia of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, the Donetsk News Agency reported on Friday. “That was Sinenkov’s car,” Read More …

Ukraine: State Emergency Service personnel evacuated from mine clearance site in Hnutove due to shelling

As a result of the shelling, the personnel of the pyrotechnic divisions of the State Emergency Service were evacuated from the mine clearance site in Hnutove, Donetsk region, the press service of the State Emergency Service has said. “On April Read More …

Netherlands supports humanitarian demining in Ukraine

Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to Ukraine Jennes de Mol said this to an Ukrinform correspondent in The Hague. “A new program of the Dutch government sets a very ambitious goal – a mine-free world by 2025. In Read More …