Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk has asked the Ukrainian Interior Ministry and the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry to appeal to the UN and other international organizations for financial and technical support to set up a humanitarian mine clearance service.
“I’m asking the Interior Ministry together with the Foreign Ministry to appeal to the UN and other international organizations for financial and technical support to set up a service on humanitarian mine clearance. This is also a common responsibility of our partners to help Ukraine to overcome this humanitarian catastrophe that menaces people’s lives,” he said during a meeting of the State Commission for Emergency Situations in Kyiv on April 21.
According to State Service for Emergency Situations chief Zorian Shkiriak 34,500 explosives and over 580 especially dangerous explosive devices and ammunition “purposefully placed by the terrorists to kill civilians, children as well” have been cleared and destroyed in Donbas since summer 2014.
According to the service, over 75,000 ammunition and explosive devices currently await clearance and neutralization.
