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hello and welcome. ukraine says 174,000 square kilometres that s roughly the same area as syria has been contaminated by landmines since russia s invasion last february. most have been found in the north eastern kharkiv region. 0ur correspondent in ukraine james waterhouse reports. this is what you call a scratching of the surface, a sweep and a gentle prod for hidden killers. a job with very obvious occupational hazards. translation: my family calls me in the morning l and tells me to be careful, to watch where i tread. of course they re worried, very much worried. before, we would work with shells from world war ii, and now they are modern munitions, so we have to learn constantly because we find new kinds that we haven t encountered before. it s hard to describe this as anything other than random. this is a patch of land in the middle of balakliya. it s not a place, unlike other areas, that was once contested, where there was heavy fighting. but what these minesw ....

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