STORY: Mine clearance training: In Cambodia, experts from Ukraine are currently learning how to safely remove mines, explosive devices and other remnants of war. The course takes place in a training center of the organization CMAC, which has been clearing mines in the Southeast Asian country and worldwide since 1992. Arseniy Diadchenko, Mine Expert, Civil Protection Ukraine: “It’s a very useful training, which was very interesting because it’s about ground-penetrating radar devices. It’s important to know how to defuse mines, how to use the devices. It went very quickly, but I think our officers are intelligent enough to operate these metal detectors and ground penetrating radars in Ukraine. It will be very helpful in clearing our territory of Russian mines.” Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the country has been involved in clearing thousands of mines and other explosive devices lying on its territory. According to estimates by Ukrainian experts, it could take five to seven years before the country is mine-free again. The education of the Ukrainians is to be continued in Poland. Conditions there are closer to those in neighboring Ukraine than in Cambodia, CMAC experts said. Cambodia has one of the highest per capita rates of mine amputees in the world. Mine clearers have been working there since the early 1990s to clear up war sites. Large parts of Cambodia were mined after a civil war and a war against neighboring Vietnam.