The U.S. State Department allocated $47.6 million to Tetra Tech. This organization should provide Ukraine with urgent humanitarian aid for demining.
This was reported in the press service of the State Department.
According to the terms of the project, Tetra Tech will train Ukrainians to find and defuse anti-personnel mines, unexploded and abandoned ammunition, improvised explosive devices and other explosive objects.
The project is part of a $91.5 million package to help with demining. The U.S. will provide it to Ukraine in full within the next year.
"According to the Ukrainian governmentʼs estimates, 160,000 square kilometers of its territory may be contaminated — this is approximately the size of Virginia, Maryland and Connecticut combined," the State Department noted.
- In June, the press officer of the State Emergency Service Oleksandr Khorunzhy stated that, according to the approximate calculations of the sappers, it would take up to 10 years to demine the entire territory of Ukraine.
- The State Emergency Service has created a mobile application for mine safety. It will help detect and report explosive objects.