Canada and UN send mine clearance vehicles to Ukrainian rescuers

The UN and Canada have decided to provide Ukraine with important demining equipment.

The UN World Food Program has purchased clearance machines for the Kharkiv region.

The UN World Food Program has purchased three machines for preparing the ground for demining, which were developed in Kharkiv.

The first machine was tested and sent to the FSD pyrotechnic units. Two more machines are being manufactured.

These four-wheel drive vehicles are equipped with powerful cranes to load and transport the equipment and materials that rescuers need in their dangerous work to protect people.

174,000 square kilometers remain potentially mined in Ukraine, which can take decades to clear.

At the end of February 2024, Serhiy Reva, head of the SES's humanitarian demining department, said that demining specialists had reduced the area contaminated by explosive ordnance by 18,000 square kilometers.

Sappers have already cleared 47.3 hectares of agricultural land using mechanized demining machines in the Mykolaiv region.

Ukraine has also presented the third model of a domestic demining machine, which is not inferior to the best Western counterparts.