Ukraine’s Interior Minister Denis Monastirsky warned Friday that it will take years following the war to combat the “huge number” of unexploded ordnances and mines in Ukraine.
Monastirsky said the war-torn country “will still need support from the West, following the Russian invasion, to remove the remnants of the brutal conflict.”
“A large number of missiles were fired at Ukraine, many of them did not explode, are still under the rubble and pose a real threat,” he told the Associated Press from Kyiv.
“It will take years, not months” to combat it, he said.
In addition to Russian unexploded ordnance, there are land mines that Ukrainian forces have planted at some bridges, airports and other main roads, to prevent Putin’s forces from using them, according to the newspaper.The Independent“.
“We will not be able to remove mines from all of those lands, so I asked our international partners and our colleagues from the European Union and the United States to send groups of experts to remove mines from the fighting areas and the facilities that were bombed,” Monastirsky continued.
Ukraine’s Interior Minister noted the difficulty of “relentless firefighting operations”.
Monastirsky said that the capital, Kyiv, “suffers from an acute shortage of personnel and equipment to deal with the fires, amid the constant bombardment.”
