Mykolaiv region became the first region affected by hostilities, where humanitarian demining of agricultural land began. This was discussed during a meeting of the Interdepartmental Working Group on Humanitarian Demining, the Government Portal reports..

To date, significant forces from the engineering and sapper units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, pyrotechnic units of the State Emergency Service have been sent to this region, foreign operators have been involved. Only from the Ministry of Defense in the region there are 11 demining groups, from next week 9 more groups will join them. 7 groups work from the State Emergency Service in the region.

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At the same time, First Vice Prime Minister - Minister of Economy of Ukraine Yulia Sviridenko stressed the need to speed up the solution of already identified problems.

" The priority is the demining of agricultural land,"

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According to preliminary estimates, in 9 regions of Ukraine (Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporozhye, Kiev, Nikolaev, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kherson, Chernihiv and Cherkasy) more than 470,854 hectares of agricultural land need to be surveyed and, if necessary, demined (humanitarian demining). Consequently, based on the results of a non-technical or technical survey, the area in need of humanitarian demining may be significantly reduced.

It is assumed that, first of all, survey and demining activities will be carried out in regions where the problem of contamination of territories is the most urgent, and the cleaning of farmland is the most economically justified..

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Recall that in the neighboring Kherson region, only about 10% of the land was cleared of mines, because of this there are difficulties with the sowing. The Kherson region was provided with two mechanized demining complexes made in Croatia, said the head of the regional administration Alexander Prokudin.