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Globally 2021 Demined Areas Total: < 133 km2
Ukraine 2023+ A completely new mine action dimension:
The United Nations (UNDP) in cooperation with the Ukrainian Government and administration in Ukraine "is leading a comprehensive 5-year mine action programme to address the extensive contamination of Ukraine with landmines, cluster munition remnants (CMRs), improvised explosive devices (IEDs), and explosive remnants of war (ERW). These hazards pose a considerable and growing threat to the civilian population and significantly impede Ukraine's economic potential.
The project aids the government in conducting humanitarian mine action to boost national capacity, facilitate access to safe land, and improve livelihoods and basic services. It aims to reduce risks, enhance the quality of mine victims' lives, and support safe returns of people and recovery of areas through coordinating responses, advising on strategies, and providing technical assistance, expertise, and specialized equipment. It also leverages innovative technologies like satellite imagery, remote sensing, AI, and machine learning.
The project is funded by the governments of Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, France, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, the Republic of Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom."

6.000.000
People at Risk
174.000 km2 =
Contaminated Area 2023
30% of the Territory
= the size of Florida State
154.000 km2
= 15,4 mln ha
Potentially dangerous and in need of demining
survey and detection
2023 / 274.000 ha
non-technical surveys completed
2024 / 512.000 ha
non-technical survey and, if necessary detection and demining priority plan
2024 / 128.000 ha
Donetsk
2024 / 2.000 ha
Chernihiv
2024 / 85 ha
Sumy
2024 / 6.600 ha
Dnipropetrovsk
2024 / 9.400 ha
Kyiv
2024 / 44.000 ha
Mykolaiv
2024 / 190.000 ha
Kharkiv
2024 / 248.000 ha
Kherson
2024 / 2025
More to Come
"Demining Ukraine: A Pre-requisite for Recovery"
(08.12.2022 www.state.gov)
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"Ukraine has become one of the most mine-contaminated countries in the world, says EU"
(04.04.2023 www.euneighbourseast.eu)
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"Ukraine's Farmland Is a Literal Minefield"
(29.05.2023 www.foereignpolicy.com)
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"Ukraine is now the most mined country.
It will decades to make safe"
(22.07.2023 www.washingtonpost.com)
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"Demining Ukraine:
An Urgent but Under-Resourced Priority"
(18.08.2023 www.csis.org)
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"Artificial intelligence to help demining Ukraine"
(19.10.2023 www.ukrainianworldcongress.org)
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"Technology is the answer"
(UA Armed Forces General Valery Zaluzhny, 01.11.2023 www.economist.com)
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Post-war reconstruction and modernization investments hardly shall get traction without
prior demining safety warranties

04/2024

03/2024
Landmine contamination in Ukraine is mind-boggling, but Kyiv is slowly attacking the problem
in the three main areas of the UN’s five pillars.
Serhiy Reva, the head of the humanitarian demining organization department of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (SESU), gave an update on mine action progress on February 29, 2024.
Reva said: “Thanks to the joint efforts of the Defense Forces and mine action operators, according to the National Mine Action Authority, last year it was possible to reduce from 174,000 square kilometers to 156,000 square kilometers of territories that are currently assessed as potentially dangerous and in need of survey and demining.”
It should be noted that the Assessment Capacities Project (ACAPS) NGO report in Januray 2024 indicated that rural populations, rescue workers, deminers, and humanitarian volunteers are the most affected groups, with adults of working age being most at risk.
The ACAPS report reconfirms that demining will play an integral part in Ukraine’s economic and social recovery.
01/2024






10/2023

Well 30% of Ukrainian territory
amounting to 174,000 sqkm
is covered in mines
6 million people are at risk of mines
2,300 incidents recorded by HALO Trust by July 2023 in which ordnance requiring clearance was discovered
250 dead from mines already
500 injured from mines
Experts forecast that up to
ten thousand people (mainly civilians) could die
World Bank estimates demining cost
between USD 2,00 to USD 8,00 per square meter
Traditional demining cost average
is USD 1,000 per mine
World Bank estimates that demining Ukraine
will cost more than USD 37 billion
(WB update RDNA3 of 2024 reduced to a little less than USD 35 bln or equal to 7% of all estimated almost USD 500 bln losses)
Hope that new technologies
e.g. artificial intelligence
shall bring down
demining time AND demining costs
Ukrainian soldiers carry out military mine clearance
Ukrainian police are in charge of mine clearance
in areas outside of the combat zones
Humanitarian demining has not yet begun in earnest
2022 - 1,000 demining experts were trained
2023 - 1,900 experts are working, and the plan is to increase that number to 2,800 as soon as possible
(Sources: International Donor's conference on demining in Ukraine held in Zagreb 12.10.2023)

