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Explosive threat: OSCE helps Ukraine to establish mine clearance programme

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The crisis in and around Ukraine has been ongoing since 2014 and affects millions of people. Mines, unexploded shells and bombs still contaminate many parts of Ukraine. This dangerous legacy remains a threat to the people living there, even in areas where hostilities ended years ago. The OSCE

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First Programme Governance Board meeting for the portfolio of OSCE projects to help Ukraine address illicit trafficking of weapons, ammunition and explosives. Kyiv, 21 January 2019

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Ukrainian demining specialists from Ministry of Defence and State Emergency Service are trained to use metal detectors provided by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator at a training ground of State Special Transport Service in Chernihiv. 28-30 May 2019

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Launch of an OSCE-supported project aimed at strengthening the State Emergency Service of Ukraine’s (SESU) capacity to clear explosive munitions in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

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Radiological control of train cargos at 'illovaysk” border crossing in Eastern Ukraine

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Roman Abramov, a pyrotechnic team leader of the Poltava Regional Emergency Department, teaches children about the dangers of unexploded weapons during an awareness-raising exercise conducted with OSCE support on 24 October 2013 in a school of Velyka Bahachka village in Poltava region, central Ukraine.

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Ukrainian children solving a quiz on discovering an unexploded military ordonance during the Young Firefighters festival in Zaozerne, Crimea on 9 September 2013.

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Containers of mélange, a toxic rocket fuel component, ready for transport from a military base in Ukraine, 16 November 2011.

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Railroad cisterns loaded with melange, ready to depart the military base in Bila Tserkva, 16 November 2011.

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Cleaning-up explosive remnants of war

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Areas contaminated with explosive remnants of war are a serious problem in Ukraine whose territory was the arena for intense war battles in World War II. Significant areas around the cities of Kerch and Sevastopol, former Soviet military outposts on the Crimean coast, and near city of Bila Tserkva

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Close-up of the explosive ordnance detection equipment donated by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine to the country’s Emergency Situations Ministry.

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Pyrotechnic specialists from Ukraine's Emergency Situations Ministry at a ceremony for the donation of personal protective equipment by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine, Kyiv, 18 March 2011.