“It may take a hundred years for the complete demining of Ukraine using traditional methods — UN September 20, 23:09 Share: Demining (Photo: OOS) It may take 100 years for the complete demining of the territory of Ukraine using traditional methods. Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations and director of the crisis bureau of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Shoko Noda stated this in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine, published on Friday, September 20. Video of the day 100”, — write on: ua.news
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It may take 100 years to completely clear the territory of Ukraine using traditional methods.
This was stated by the assistant secretary general of the UN and the director of the crisis bureau of the UN Development Program (UNDP) Shoko Noda in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine, published on Friday, September 20.
According to Noda, if technology is improved and continuous efforts are made, significant progress in demining can be achieved in a few years. However, demining using traditional methods can take hundreds of years.
Currently, the UN development program, together with technical partners and national authorities, is studying the use of UAVs, service dogs and other innovative technologies for humanitarian demining, Noda said.
She noted that the testing of innovative methods recently carried out by UNDP in Ukraine for detecting mines showed encouraging results.
According to her, the innovative teams managed to achieve results of 78% when detecting objects on the surface, about 70% – when detecting metal and buried objects, and 62% – when detecting plastic objects.
On September 20, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reported that since the beginning of the large-scale invasion, mine action operators have surveyed and demined 5,308 square kilometers of Ukrainian territory.
At the beginning of January 2024, it was reported that sappers managed to clear more than 24.5% of the de-occupied territory of the Kherson region.
On April 5, the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Ihor Klymenko stated that due to the full-scale invasion of Russia, as of now, approximately 25% of the territory of Ukraine is contaminated with mines and explosive objects.
Earlier it was reported that 30% of the country’s territories were mined in Ukraine as a result of Russia’s invasion, in terms of area this corresponds to two territories of Austria. The Ministry of Internal Affairs and the State Emergency Service predict that it may take up to ten years for their complete demining.