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Three police officers in Moscow, two late last year and one last week, were killed when explosive devices they were carrying were detonated remotely, Russian Interior Ministry Spokeswoman Irina Volk said. “Recently and at the end of last year, the Read More …
To mark Poland’s official withdrawal from the Ottawa Convention or the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Treaty, Julia Głębocka, Human rights researcher for Amnesty International Poland, reflects on what the return of these indiscriminate weapons means for human rights in Europe. Not Read More …
An explosion occurred at a school in the city of Dnipro on Feb. 23 during a classroom demonstration of ammunition, injuring two children, according to regional police. Authorities said the incident happened while ammunition samples were being shown to students, Read More …
Syria’s Minister of Emergency Management and Disaster Response, Raed al-Saleh, met a Ukrainian delegation in Damascus to discuss expanding cooperation on clearing landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO), the ministry said. The Ukrainian delegation was led by Ihor Bezkrovainyi, director of Read More …
An explosion at a police station in Dnipro has been classified as a terrorist act. According to Ukrinform, this was reported on Telegram by the Office of the Prosecutor General. At around 20:50 on February 23, an improvised explosive device Read More …
An explosion occurred at a gas station in Mykolaiv that was not in operation. Seven officers from the Patrol Police Department were injured; they had come to change shifts and parked their vehicles at the station. This was reported by Read More …
23-year-old police officer was killed and 24 people were injured in a terrorist attack in Lviv in the early hours of Sunday, February 22. The Lviv regional police announced this on Facebook. “At around 00:30 today, a report was received Read More …
An explosion at a military enlistment office in the city of Kolomyia, in western Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, has been classified as a terrorist attack, the regional prosecutor’s office said. The news comes amid a rise in attacks on vehicles belonging to Read More …
In the morning of February 16, 2026, on Akademika Korovла Street in Odesa, there was an explosion of a passenger car, injuring one person. According to preliminary data, a 56-year-old man was injured. He was hospitalized for medical treatment. Investigators, Read More …
In the Pervomaisk district of the Mykolaiv region, rescuers from the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (SES) destroyed the warhead of a Russian Kh-101 missile. This was reported by the Main Directorate of the SES in the Mykolaiv region on Read More …
Under the state program to compensate for demining costs, mine-action operators cleared 1,340 hectares of agricultural land in Ukraine in January; the cost of the works amounted to 76.43 million hryvnias. According to the Ministry of Economy, Environment and Agriculture, Read More …
A Ukrainian soldier was killed after his vehicle exploded in the southern city of Odesa on Feb. 6, in what local security services have called a terrorist attack. The victim of the explosion, which took place early in the morning, was Read More …
The start of 2026 brought new achievements for the sappers of the Support Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces: they cleared more than 150 hectares of front-line territories of explosive devices. According to the head of the Communications Department of Read More …
Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Ihor Klymenko and Chief Representative of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in Ukraine Osamu Hattori signed a Grant Agreement for the implementation of the Emergency Response Program related to humanitarian demining and clearing Read More …
Fragments of a missile with a warhead weighing about 500 kg were located near residential buildings and a gas station in the Dniprovskyi district of Kyiv. This posed a high risk of explosion and civilian casualties. Police explosives technicians and Read More …
The law enforcement investigation concerns possible misuse of budget funds during humanitarian demining of agricultural lands as part of the state expense-reimbursement program. The information was confirmed by the National Police and the Office of the Prosecutor General on January Read More …
The European Commission formally presented a €90 billion loan package to Ukraine on Wednesday, as Brussels races to support Kyiv’s war effort amid increasingly fierce Russian attacks and US-led efforts to end the war. Two-thirds of the package will be Read More …
A Ukrainian company contracted to manufacture critically needed land- and anti-personnel mines for the front pocketed nearly Hr.3 billion ($69.8 million) in taxpayer money and instead sent small volumes of munitions that frequently failed to function and sometimes blew up Read More …
Britain said it was allocating 200 million pounds ($270 million) to fund preparations for the possible deployment of troops to Ukraine, after pledging its soldiers this week to a multinational force for the country in the event of a ceasefire. Read More …
In 2026, humanitarian demining of Ukraine’s deoccupied territories will be planned using a new approach – leveraging modern digital solutions. This was discussed at the final meeting of the National Mine Action Authority, chaired by Deputy Minister of Defense of Read More …