Every metre that farmer Igor Kniazev ploughs in an east Ukrainian village holds the danger of mines, booby-traps and unexploded shells the remains of a nearly three-month Russian occupation that ended over a year ago.Plot after plot, while ploughing the land, Kniazev systematically checked every metre.
Russia is mostly firing shells produced in 2022 and 2023, showing their ammunition supply is "running smoothly," Roman Holodivskyi, a battery commander in Ukraine's 43rd Artillery Brigade, told the Kyiv Independent in an interview published on Feb. 22.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that almost a third of the territory of Ukraine is contaminated by mines and unexploded shells. Source: Zelenskyy's evening address Quote: "In particular, I want to note the conference on humanitarian demining, which took place this week in Croatia.
Yemen has one of the world's highest rates of contamination with landmines and other deadly explosives, the International Committee of the Red Cross has warned, nine years after the start of the brutal civil war.In its effort to help Yemen deal with the impacts of its brutal war, said Carboni, "we want to be optimistic but, at the very same time, we don't want to be naive".
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