A large number of Russian shells don't detonate and get buried in the ground. Picking through the grass for trip wires, mines and artillery is painstaking work, and will take years.
Civilians have learnt the hard way that this area is contaminated with munitions and it is so unsafe they don't come here anymore.Fields that should be planted with wheat - are covered in munitions and mines.
"The volume of artillery, rocketry, landmines and scatterable munitions now being used in Ukraine makes it the most lethal environment anywhere in the world for the civilian population. These munitions are being used on a highly indiscriminate basis by the Russians," said Halo CEO, Major-General James Cowan.'s troops around Kyiv in April, it soon became clear much of the ground was heavily contaminated with threats to civilians.
We joined a team of deminers in a minefield near Makariv. Locals had reported Russian tanks and soldiers positioned around a recreation field there.This area is just 100 metres from civilian homes.One woman, Olga Kyrylova, who lives in a large family home next to the minefield, shows us her front gate peppered with bullet holes.
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