UDS continues to enhance the qualifications of its deminers.

UDS continues to enhance the qualifications of its deminers.

Humanitarian demining is an incredibly complex yet crucial mission. The safety of people depends on the expertise of non-technical and technical survey experts, on deminers. That's why the UDS team constantly strives for improvement.

Twenty-two UDS deminers have completed a two-month advanced training course following the "Basic Processes of Mine Action: Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)" curriculum, and 19 of them successfully passed the tests. This program aligns with the International Mine Action Standards (IMAS), and the successful completion of the exams serves as the basis for entering into a fixed-term contract with UDS.

Those who did not pass the exam are not allowed to proceed to work. Following the training, deminers took the final exam, which was administered by a specially formed commission. The commission comprised the best experts:

1. Chair of the Examination Commission, Director of the "Professional Development Academy," Ph.D. in Psychological Sciences Zoya Harkavenko
2. Professor, Doctor of Public Administration, Advisor to the UDS CEO Viacheslav Husev
3. UN Mine Action Service Specialist, Advisor to the UDS CEO Bohdan Glukhovatiy
4. Chief of the Medical Support Department, Chief Doctor at UDS Yulia Kavetska
5. First Deputy Chief of the Mobile Rescue Center for Rapid Response, Colonel Yuriy Tsikenyuk
6. Ph.D. in Technical Sciences, Advisor to the UDS CEO on Scientific and Technical Matters, Lieutenant General Vasyl Kvashuk

Another 39 UDS deminers are currently undergoing humanitarian demining training (24 in Kharkiv and 15 in Kamianets-Podilskyi). After completing their training, they will also take this two-month course and undergo the exam on UDS work standards.

It is crucial for us that the best specialists are engaged in humanitarian demining in Ukraine. And our deminers are just that—among the best.