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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 …
In September 2024, sappers surveyed and cleared of mines more than 30,500 hectares of agricultural land in Ukraine, which is 1.5 times more than in the previous month. In total, mine action operators have surveyed 257 thousand hectares of land Read More …
The other day, a man called the 102 special line and reported that he had found an FPV drone with an unexploded ordnance in a field in the Kherson region. In addition to the drone, the explosive experts also found Read More …
Two police officers from the Zhytomyr region have been wounded while clearing mines in the Kherson region. The Kherson region police announced this in a post on Facebook, Ukrinform reports. “In Bilohirka, two police officers from the Zhytomyr region were Read More …
The liberated right (east) bank of Kherson Oblast is planned to be cleared of mines by the end of 2025. According to Oleksandr Prokudin, Head of Kherson Oblast Military Administration, 1,100 bomb disposal experts are currently working in the region Read More …
Despite the terrorist attacks of Russia, the state is taking all measures to ensure the speedy humanitarian demining of agricultural land and food security of the country, the Committee on Agrarian and Land Policy informs. Thus, according to the Kherson Read More …
Ukraine’s and non-governmental operators’ bomb disposal units have inspected and brought back into use over 200,000 hectares of agricultural land since the beginning of the year. “Our bomb disposal experts from Ukraine’s State Emergency Service, State Transport Special Service and Read More …
Three bomb disposal technicians from The HALO Trust organization, involved in humanitarian mine clearance operations in Kherson region, hit a Russian mine, Head of Kherson Regional Military Administration Oleksandr Prokudin has said. “A 24-year-old man was seriously wounded in head Read More …
Sweden has sent 250 mine detectors to Ukraine to eliminate the consequences of Russia’s destruction of the Kakhovka dam, Sweden’s Ministry of Defense reported on June 14. The equipment sent by Stockholm was intended for civilian mine clearance, said Swedish Read More …
The destruction of the Kakhovka dam in Ukraine will have a catastrophic effect on locating landmines in the affected region, the Red Cross warned Wednesday. “We knew where the hazards were,” said Erik Tollefsen, head of the Weapon Contamination Unit Read More …
Kyiv has vowed that the destruction of the huge Nova Kakhovka dam and flooding of frontline areas in southeastern Ukraine will not derail its planned counter-offensive as it accused Russia’s occupation force of destroying the facility on the Dnipro river Read More …
124 people, including 6 children, have been killed by explosive devices in Ukraine since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion. Ruslan Berehulia, Head of the Department of Environmental Safety and Anti-mine Action of Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence said: “As of Read More …
In the Kherson region of Ukraine, Serhiy Moskalenko, the chief of the regional pre-trial detention centre who was collaborating with the Russian occupation “government”, has been killed, the Defence Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine reports. He was Read More …
A local official in a part of Ukraine’s southern Kherson region controlled by Russian forces was killed on Thursday in a car bomb attack, the Russian-installed local administration said. It blamed the death of Andrei Shtepa on “Ukrainian terrorists”. There Read More …
By the end of the week, the number of EOD teams will be increased to 25. This was announced by the Head of the National Police of Ukraine during the live broadcast of the “United News”. The Head of the Read More …
The security car of State Duma deputy Alexander Borodai was reportedly blown up by a mine in the Kherson region, as reported on Monday, November 7. According to military correspondent Chingis Dambiev via his Telegram channel, the State Duma deputy’s Read More …
An improvised explosive device went off on the street of Kherson, killing one person, Kirill Stremousov, the deputy head of the regional administration, said on Sunday. “There was a terrorist attack. One person died and a nearby car was damaged Read More …
The Russia-installed rector at Kherson State University in southeastern Ukraine, Tatyana Tomilina, has reportedly survived an assassination attempt and is currently in the hospital. Russian news agencies reported late on September 12 that a handmade explosive device detonated, killing a Read More …
In a growing challenge to Russia’s grip on occupied areas of southeastern Ukraine, guerrilla forces loyal to Kyiv are killing pro-Moscow officials, blowing up bridges and trains, and helping the Ukrainian military by identifying key targets. The spreading resistance has Read More …
A senior official in the Russian-installed administration of Ukraine’s occupied Kherson region was killed in an apparent assassination on Friday. Dmitry Savluchenko, head of the families, youth, and sports department of the Kherson Military-Civilian Administration, was killed in a bomb Read More …