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Demining Ukraine: from drones to risking it with a rake

  • Viktoria Shynkar, a deminer with HALO Trust, recovered 243 TM-62 anti-tank mines in Mykolaiv region amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
  • Ihor Kniazev, a farmer from Kharkiv Oblast, reported that his land is contaminated with landmines, making farming difficult in previously occupied areas.
  • Ukraine's Agriculture Minister, Vitaliy Koval, stated that grain production has dropped from 84 million tons in 2021 to only 24 million tons due to the conflict and landmines.
  • Shynkar emphasized the severe impact of landmines on agriculture, stating that there's a lot of contamination and farmers can't work or grow crops.
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Demining Ukraine: from drones to risking it with a rake

There were so many mines on Larisa Sysenko's small farm in Kamyanka in eastern Ukraine after the Russians were pushed out that she and her husband Viktor started demining it themselves -- with rakes.

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Kamianka - "There were many mines, and we saw that our guys didn't have time to take care of us. So we cleared with rakes," says Larissa Syssenko, as evidence. How many are in Ukraine to risk their lives in order to clean up their fields from tons of oil and mines that sleep there since the beginning of the Russian invasion on February 24, 2022? In the corner, "everyone demines by himself, absolutely everyone," assures another farmer, Igor Kniaz…

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Barron's broke the news in New York, United States on Wednesday, July 2, 2025.
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