The Geneva International Center for Humanitarian Demining will train Ukranian sappers.

The Center along with the Swiss Army regularly holds training courses at the international level in the frameworks of NATO’s Partnership for Peace program.
Swiss Defense Ministry officials have invited Ukrainian experts to take a part in such training courses.

The first few Ukrainians will attend the training in the coming weeks.

The travel and accommodation costs will be covered by Switzerland.

“It will take years to remove, hindering the country’s post-war reconstruction efforts and making it unsafe for people to return to their previous daily lives,” GICHD officials said.

Currently, according to the estimates of various experts, the area of territories in Ukraine where anti-personnel and anti-tank mines, unexploded cluster munitions, grenades, fragments of shells, missiles, etc. are found has increased significantly.

Explosive objects pose a threat to the civilian population.

According to the Ukrainian Ministry, 212,000 square kilometers need to be demined.

European institutions are already helping to clean off dangerous explosives from the territories of Kyiv, Chernihiv and Sumy Regions.

The head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Dmytro Kuleba, announced that Slovenia plans to provide Ukraine with equipment for civilian demining through the EU civil protection mechanism.

Also, Germany will increase aid to Ukraine for humanitarian demining of territories.