A full-scale Russian invasion left almost a third of Ukraine hazardous because of mines.
Contaminated territory is reduced by 35,000 square kilometers with 130,000 operations of the pyrotechnic units of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine by the end of 2024.
World-renowned for their experience with mines after the Balkan wars of the ‘90s, experts from Bosnia-Herzegovina are engaged in training sappers.
Trainers are in the country as employees of Norwegian People’s Aid, whose cooperation with Ukrainian authorities is funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the German Foreign Office, and the US State Department's Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement.
Mine detection dogs deployed in Ukrainian minefields were bred and trained in Sarajevo, Bosnia.
While Russian attacks remain relentless, specially trained dogs are helping responders to overnight air raids as well.
