Ukraine has a million wounded veterans—and the funding to train forty as deminers
Maksym Dobrianskyi lost a leg to a Russian mine, then joined a small, donor-funded effort turning Ukraine’s war-wounded into the workforce its recovery needs.
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Dust and demining in Lviv Oblast—where the future of clearing the world’s most mined country meets the county fair
A day at the country’s flagship robot-demining showcase in Lviv Oblast, where clearing the most heavily mined country on earth looked a bit like a county fair with explosions.
Ukraine threw out the international rulebook after firefighters stood helpless against burning mined forests
The international demining playbook does not cover Russia’s war—Ukraine is writing one as it goes.
Russian mines cost Ukraine $11 billion every year. Clearing them is the work of decades
Deputy Minister Ihor Bezkaravainyi, who lost his leg to a mine in 2015, on clearing Russia’s mines from Ukraine.
Kyiv’s AI coders take aim at hidden Russia’s killers beneath soil
With a third of its territory mined, Ukraine is betting on AI to accelerate demining.