“It is remote-controlled vehicle. The operator should be at a distance of 50-70 meters. Such vehicle can define 2 thousand square metres,” Ihor Klymenko, the Minister of Internal Affairs, stated.
He also noted that Kherson region is the most mined region in Ukraine now. Russians have had a lot of time to leave mines that can be dangerous for regular mine clearing and life-threatening for sappers.
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“On the one hand, it’s about safety of our sappers. On the other hand, it’s about time, amount of work and area in order to demine the agricultural lands first,” the Minister said.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs expects to receive 6 vehicles by the end of May and the government of Canada will give the remaining 12 vehicles later.
Ihor Klymenko also notes that the Ministry has already got 2 Croatian mechanical mine clearing vehicles (the MV-4 and the MV-10 mine clearance and EOD robotic systems) provided by the Howard G. Buffett Foundation.
There are still potentially dangerous territories of 174 thousand square kilometres (30% of the territory of Ukraine).
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