https://apnews.com/article/cambodia-ba71042128daecf15e1638d8c572cc1e
"SIEM REAP, Cambodia (AP) — A group of 15 Ukrainian deminers on Friday wrapped
up a week of training in Cambodia, where experts who have cleared minefields
from one of the world’s most contaminated countries shared their expertise with
the relative newcomers to the dangerous job.
Cambodia is still strewn with mines from three decades of war and internal
conflicts that ended in 1998, while the problem in Ukraine is a new one since
the Russian invasion last year.
Ukrainian deminer Stanislav Kulykiusky told reporters that his team was
grateful for the training, saying that at home already 64 deminers had been
injured and 13 killed in the line of duty.
“It is a very difficult situation,” he said.
The NGO Landmine Monitor in its 2022 report listed both Cambodia and Ukraine
among the nine countries with “massive” mine contamination, meaning they had
more than 100 square kilometers (38.6 square miles) of uncleared fields.
Kulykiusky said that the main challenge for Ukrainian deminers was the scale of
the job, but that it was critical to ensure all mines are removed before people
return to villages and farms.
“This is a precondition of the recovery,” he said."
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