After the de-occupation, many important civilian facilities in the Kharkiv region remained dangerous, and sappers are now destroying Russian mines and shells there. It may take hundreds of years to completely clear the territory of Ukraine, according to the Kholodnyi Yar 93rd Separate Mechanized Brigade. How Ukraine being de-mined “Ukraine is the most mined country in the world. The Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources estimates that 176,000 square kilometers of the territory may be mined. And it will take hundreds of years to completely clear it of mines,” the brigade sa…