Ukraine's demining: potentially contaminated area reduced to 156 thousand sq.km
The territory of Ukraine, which due to full-scale Russian aggression is potentially contaminated with explosive objects, currently amounts to 156 thousand square kilometers, that is about 25% of the total area of the state. Mining specialists managed to reduce it by 18 thousand sq. km.
Thanks to the joint efforts of the defense forces and mine control operators, according to the National Mine Action Agency, last year it was possible to reduce from 174 thousand square kilometers to 156 thousand square kilometers, which at this time are assessed as potentially dangerous and in need of survey and demining.
Pyrotechnic units of the State Emergency Service during two years of full-scale war surveyed 1.1 thousand square kilometers, made more than 84 thousand sorties, neutralized more than 472 thousand. VNPs, however, are currently the most dangerous in Kharkiv, Kherson and Donetsk regions.
Priorities for the SNS are the demining of deoccupied settlements, critical and transport infrastructure, agricultural land. After all, in order to ensure the prompt execution of works and respond to citizens' notifications about the detection of ammunition, the number of pyrotechnic calculations of the State Emergency Service from 2022 has been increased from 600 to 1900 people and this process continues.
To preserve the lives and health of people, and to speed up the cleansing of Ukrainian land from enemy explosives, the Service operates 33 mechanized demining machines. In total, the SNS sappers mined more than 14 thousand objects and households, 7.8 thousand km of power lines, 549 km of gas pipelines, 3.7 thousand km of roads, 606 km of railway tracks.
According to the Ministry of Defense, 287 civilians, including 15 children, were killed as a result of the explosion at the GNP, and another 641 people were injured, including 77 children.
State Emergency Service of Ukraine
