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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/802958
Archived version: https://archive.ph/yujVF
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20230728073628/https://www.reuters.com/graphics/UKRAINE-CRISIS/LANDMINES/myvmgnqbavr/index.html
Also the deadly threat of their own cluster munitions.
Russia has filled huge swaths of Ukraine with mines and I doubt Russia will be sending Ukraine their records (lol) of where the fields are after the war. The minefields created by Russia’s war of conquest will be an ongoing issue in the country for decades.
Assuming Ukraine wins the war, we will likely see a large rebuilding effort, which will necessarily include getting the majority of these cleared out.
Before any of that happens, of course. Russia needs to be pushed out the country. Every day they stay is another day they are creating minefields.