Representatives of The HALO Trust got acquainted with the work of UDS on humanitarian demining in Mykolaiv oblast

Representatives of The HALO Trust, in particular  Pete Smith, Head of The HALO Trust Ukraine,  and Denys Holovetskyi, Head of Operations at The Halo Trust Ukraine, got acquainted with the progress of humanitarian demining of Mykolaiv oblast, which is being carried out by UDS.

The UDS team showed the operation of Bozen 5+ machines in the field. Currently, 3 Bozena 5+ robotic systems are performing humanitarian demining tasks in the field of farmer Yurii Kotyk.

According to the NTS the field is contaminated with mines and unexploded ordnance. Demining here is carried out by the 3rd and 4th group of sappers of the UDS Humanitarian Demining Department.

The total area that our sappers have already managed to clear is 20 hectares.

Pete Smith, Head of The Halo Trust Ukraine program, noted the high quality of UDS's work, and also noted that the future of humanitarian demining of agricultural land belongs to robotic machines, because it is efficient, safe, fast and inexpensive. The management of The Halo Trust Ukraine and the management of UDS agreed on cooperation, exchange of experience and technologies.

Video from the event can be viewed here.

Reference.

The Halo Trust Ukraine is the Ukrainian program of The Halo Trust, the largest non-governmental non-profit humanitarian demining organization in the world. The volume of demining work at The Halo Trust reaches $1 billion per year.

The HALO Trust began its work in Ukraine in 2015, helping to clear mines in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. After the start of the full-scale invasion, operations were significantly scaled up, and as of 2024, HALO Ukraine teams work in Kyiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Kherson, and Mykolaiv regions.

The Halo Trust Ukraine team has more than 1200 employees and is the largest foreign operator in Ukraine.