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Ukrainian Deminers Clear 1,914 Russian Explosive Items in First Half of 2026
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Ukraine's Defense Ministry demining units surveyed and cleared 4,715 hectares of liberated territory of mines and explosive remnants of war during the first half of 2026.
This was reported by the Main Directorate of Mine Action, Civil Protection and Environmental Safety in a statement on its official Telegram channel on July 2.
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The work returns farmland, roads, and railways to use in a country where buried munitions keep killing civilians long after the front line moves on.
The cleared areas included:
831.85 hectares of agricultural land;
186.33 kilometers of railway lines;
16.14 kilometers of roads;
6.72 kilometers of power transmission lines.
Specialists also located and destroyed 1,914 explosive devices over the period, lifting the total removed since Russia's full-scale invasion began to 482,330.
The work falls to the demining groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the State Special Transport Service, explosive ordnance teams of the National Police, and pyrotechnic units of the State Emergency Service.
Ukraine has become the most heavily mined country in the world since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022. Vast areas of farmland and former front-line land remain seeded with mines and unexploded ordnance, a hazard expected to outlast the war itself.
Almost 23% of Ukraine's territory remains contaminated—roughly 128,000 square kilometers—and full clearance is expected to take at least a decade.
Explosive devices have killed or injured more than 1,358 people since 2022, among them 380 killed, and clearing a single hectare costs at least $1,400.
The contamination keeps growing even as crews clear it. Russian forces have stepped up remote mining of Ukrainian supply routes, dropping explosive charges and magnetic mines from drones around Chasiv Yar and nearby Kostiantynivka in the Donetsk region.
Ukrainian units there must scan and clear the roads before every logistics run, often flying reconnaissance drones ahead of the movement.
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