Nearly 14 percent of Ukraine’s area is strewn with Russian mines. Experts say that any future landmine clearing exercise would require as much manpower as Afghanistan's clean up consumed during the last two decades.
to Patron, a two-and-a-half-year-old Jack Russell Terrier, which has emerged as an unlikely hero in the three-month-long Russian siege of the country.
According to rough estimates, nearly 14 percent of the country’s area—which translates to more than 600 square kms—is now strewn with mines. Ukraine’s president had asked the international community to treat the act of planting mines by Russian troops as “war crime.”
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