The farmer explained why Mykolaiv farmers have to clear the fields by themselves: «To stay afloat»

Farmers of the Mykolaiv region are forced to independently check their land plots for the presence of explosive devices.

Ivan Kyrykovych, an agrarian from the village of Zelenyi Hai, told NikVesti why farmers risk their lives.

A man helps an acquaintance from the village of Ternovi Pody clear a field. The agrarian and his team have already cultivated 60 hectares of land here.

«An acquaintance asked us, he can't cope with his fields, to help him demine a little here, to work. We found three cumulative cassettes here, two RPGs and so much scrap metal, garbage,» said the man.

He said that sappers do not have time to demine the land, and farmers need to work and sow their fields.

«The rescuers do not have time to process all the fields, so they have to walk, search, and demine on their own. It will be checked to say the right thing, not demining. If sappers pass through these fields in the middle of summer, then the year will already be wasted, we will not sow anything. We need to go into the field now in the spring, process everything in order to stay afloat this year,» said the farmer.

See the NikVesti report «24 cats and 13 dogs that were abandoned in the occupation were sheltered. Report from Ternovi Pody».

Previously, NikVesti visited the villages of Lupareve and Lymany. For the life of settlements in the conditions of war and reconstruction, see the report « How to live in a village when the occupiers are across the river».

NikVesti also visited the de-occupied Maksymivka in the Mykolaiv region and found out how the destroyed village of Maksymivka changed a year after the occupation.

Mine danger in the Mykolayiv region

On the territory of the Mykolaiv region, since the beginning of the full-scale war, explosive devices of the State Emergency Service have defused 22,500 explosive objects, 67 of them — aerial bombs.

Read the article NikVesti  «Decades are needed: How the demining process of the Mykolaiv region continues».

It should be noted that in the past year 2023, 17 people, including one child, died in the Mykolaiv Oblast due to the detonation of ammunition. According to the calculations of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (ESES), there were a total of 57 cases of detonation of the civilian population by landmines last year.

On November 24, 2022, a case of mine detonation was recorded in the deoccupied Snigurivska community. Employees of the State Emergency Service were killed and wounded.

On December 15, 2022, a man found two anti-personnel mines left behind by the Russian military in one of the villages of Snihurivka region. The shells were detonated. A 26-year-old man died on the spot. Subsequently, on April 22, 2022, in the town of Snihurivka, near the former mineral water plant, two residents of the community were blown up by an anti-personnel mine.

On September 20, 2023, a car carrying two men was blown up by a mine in Snihurivka. One of them died on the spot, the second man was hospitalized. Later, on October 11, a combine exploded on a mine in a field near the town of Snihurivka. The driver was injured as a result of the explosion and is in the hospital.

Also, on February 1, 2024, four people were detonated by a mine near the village of Yevgenivka in the Mykolaiv region. On March 5, 2024 , a 38-year-old man blew himself up in the village of Bezimenne, Snihurivka community, Bashtanka district.

We would like to remind you that on March 12, 2024, an interactive safety class was opened at the base of the Department of Emergency Situations in the Mykolaiv region, where children will be taught the rules of handling explosive objects.

Earlier, in August 2023, Mykolaiv rescuers created a mobile mine safety class, which works in various settlements of the region. It was created to minimize risks and reach as many residents of the region as possible, especially in the de-occupied territories or in settlements where active hostilities were taking place.

Read the article "NykVesty» "What are mines and what to do if you find a suspicious object? We explain."