The UK’s Ambassador from Her Majesty’s Government in Ukraine, Melinda Simmons, visited the British mine clearance charity The HALO Trust at work on a minefield in northern Ukraine yesterday, to mark the 6-month anniversary of the invasion of Kyiv and showcase UK aid for HALO’s work.
The minefield visited by Ms Simmons was in a forest near the village of Zalissa, north-east of Brovary. The village came under repeated shelling and was occupied by Russian forces for 24 days in March, but returned to Ukrainian control in April. However many houses remain destroyed and there a substantial amount of cluster munitions, anti-personnel and anti-vehicle mines still hidden in the area. At least one local resident has been killed by hitting a tripwire which detonated an OZM-72 anti-personnel bounding fragmentation mine while walking in the forest.
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Source: Reliefweb