This is what they're dealing with - vast swathes of the country unusable and lethal, estimates for cleaning it up in the tens or even hundreds of years.
The American Monument, mull of Oa, Islay. Commemorates the hundreds who died when troops ships sank off these cliffs in 1918.
Delighted to welcome Tami Hoffman, Director of Public Policy @theguardian.com to our stellar panel @georginalee.bsky.social FactCheck & Data News Editor @channel4news.bsky.social, Dr Manny Ahmed Founder & CEO @openorigins.bsky.social.
Join us at The Frontline Club, London, Tues 23 Sept at 7pm.
& pics from demining ops with @minesadvisorygroup.bsky.social & @herorats.bsky.social - thanks to these great teams for having me
Russian mines are endangering fighters, farmers and children across liberated Ukraine. Now Kyiv wants to set its own traps for the invaders, writes @jenstout.bsky.social.
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/europe...
pics from the UXO/mine-contaminated (but beautiful) countryside - open steppe, golden fields, blue skies, red landmine warning signs
A long-read for Prospect magazine: reporting from SE Ukraine on demining
& conversely, on the scramble to leave the Mine Ban Treaty by countries threatened by Russia.
Blog & extra pics:
www.jenstout.net/post/deminin...
Article w/Julia Kochetova (!) pics: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/europe...
5/ The agreement would also require Ukraine to hand over its heavily fortified defensive lines, much as Neville Chamberlain's Munich Agreement did to Czechoslovakia in 1938. Russia's next invasion of Ukraine would be made far easier.
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Interview from 5:23pm on Drivetime www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Excellent reporting every time she's on air: local-level reporting, right up to the wider state of the war, with more clarity than I've heard from anyone else. Hope Jen keeps being booked by the BBC.
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
Kyiv backed a life-saving landmine ban in 1999. Now, with Russian mines endangering fighters, farmers and children across liberated Ukraine, it wants ...
