Chernihiv Regional State Administration and UDS signed a memorandum of cooperation in the field of demining

"This is the next step in expanding UDS's geography of operations in the Chernihiv region," said UDS Commercial Director Serhiy Simonov during the meeting.

As a result of a working meeting with the participation of UDS Commercial Director Serhiy Simonov, Deputy Chairman of the Chernihiv Regional State Administration Dmytro Synenko, Director of the Department of Agro-Industrial Development Oleh Krapyvnyy, and Director of the Department of Civil Protection Oleksandr Tytshenko, priority areas and lands in Chernihiv region that require both preliminary non-technical survey and demining were identified.

According to Dmytro Synenko, the region has a Headquarters for organizing demining (clearing of unexploded ordnance) of de-occupied territories of the Chernihiv region. Since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the potential contamination of Chernihiv region with unexploded ordnance has been about 60,000 hectares of agricultural land. Thanks to the coordinated efforts of state authorities, the State Emergency Service, the Ministry of Defense, agrarians, domestic and international mine action operators, 41,000 hectares of land were surveyed, of which 39,000 hectares were demined (65% of the potentially contaminated agricultural land in the region).

Currently, about 18,000 hectares of agricultural land remain potentially contaminated in the region, 17,000 of which are located in the 20 km border zone. According to the plan of measures for humanitarian demining of the region's territories for 2025, it is planned to survey and clear 414.84 hectares of agricultural land.