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In March, almost 7,600 hectares of de-occupied areas were cleared by Ministry of Defense demining specialists

In March 2025, the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine's mine clearance units cleared 7,598.23 hectares of de-occupied territories from explosive hazards.

Specifically, during the month, the following was cleared:

  • 6,927.5 hectares of agricultural land;
  • 22.93 km of roadways;
  • 5.7 km of electric power lines;
  • 25.1 km of railways;
  • 5.71 hectares of residential areas.

In this period, sappers detected and neutralized 3,966 explosive devices. Since the onset of the full-scale invasion, a total of 430,050 hazardous objects have been neutralized.

As of the end of March, the number of certified mine action operators reached 87. In the previous month, 4 additional operators have been added.

According to the MoD’s Main Directorate of Mine Action, Civil Protection, and Environmental Safety, teams from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the State Special Transport Service, explosive ordnance disposal units of the National Police of Ukraine, and pyrotechnic units of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine are involved in government-sanctioned units of central executive bodies carrying out operations to remove explosive remnants of war from formerly occupied areas.

Humanitarian demining in Ukraine is exclusively carried out by mine action operators, as mandated by the Law of Ukraine on "Mine Action in Ukraine.”

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  • Demining