Over a third of Ukraine’s territory is contaminated with mines and explosive objects, Ukraine says

More than a third of the territory of Ukraine is contaminated with mines and explosive objects due to the war with Russia, the official account of the general staff of the armed forces of Ukraine posted on Telegram.

It wrote:

Over the past week, specialists of the support forces command of the armed forces of Ukraine examined and cleared more than 260 hectares of agricultural land and other territories of explosive objects, where 3,530 explosive objects were removed and neutralized.

In total, since the beginning of the large-scale armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, demining groups of units of the support forces command of the armed forces of Ukraine have cleared more than 11,285 thousand hectares of agricultural land of explosive objects, removed and neutralized 135,792 explosive objects.