Sappers cleared another 44 million square meters of agricultural land in Mykolaiv region in November
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- Olena Kozubovska
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12:33, 09 December, 2024
A shell near the road in Bezymenny, Mykolaiv Oblast, October 2024, photo «NikVesti»In November, agrarians of the Mykolaiv region received 44 million square meters of agricultural land surveyed and cleared of explosive objects for use.
This is reported by the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine.
According to First Vice Prime Minister — Minister of Economy Yuliia Svyrydenko, during the year, Ukrainian sappers surveyed more than 2.8 billion square meters of agricultural land throughout the country, more of which have already been handed over to farmers. She also emphasized the significant amount of work in the liberated regions.
«In November, our sappers crossed the line of 309 hectares of agricultural land surveyed since the beginning of the year. More than 280,000 hectares have already been transferred to farmers. The sappers did extraordinary work on the lands of the Kherson region liberated by the Ukrainian defenders. Since the beginning of the year, they have surveyed more than 250,000 hectares in the region, of which almost 245,000 agrarians can already use,» she said.
In November, the most lands were surveyed:
- Kherson region — 207 million square meters (2.511 billion square meters);
- Mykolayiv region — 44 million square meters (209 million square meters);
- Kharkiv region — 10 million square meters (225 million square meters).
How is the demining of the Mykolaiv region going on?
At the beginning of 2024, Ukraine updated the country's priority demining plan. According to him, it was decided to demine more than 512 thousand hectares of fields as a priority, of which 44 thousand hectares are in the Mykolaiv region.
As of December 2023, 30% of the territory of the Mykolaiv region was mined. In total, it is 754 thousand hectares of land.
At the same time, they are working on demining in the region. For example, as of October 2023, 13 thousand 40 hectares, including 9 thousand 25 hectares of agricultural land, have been demined in the Mykolayiv region.
Dmytro Komarov, the author of the «World Inside Out.Ukraine» project, visited the mined territories of the Mykolaiv region and showed the work of local sappers. NikVesti also told about a farmer from Kyselivka who is trying to demine his fields on his own.
About 30,000-35,000 hectares of land remain mined in the Bashtanka district of the Mykolaiv region, part of which was under occupation. And in the village of Maksymivka of the Pervomaisk community of the Mykolaiv region, locals live with an unexploded shell under the foundation of the house.
In general, the demining situation in Maksymivka is currently critical. A year after liberation from the Russian occupiers , the village was demined by only 40%.
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