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Ukrainian minesweepers in full gear in the tropical wilderness.
Your mission: finding and controlled demolition of mines.
Arseniy Diadchenko, Ukrainian Civil Protection
»It is a very helpful training.
It was very important for us because it is about ground penetrating radars.
At least it is very important to know how to defuse mines, how to deal with them.
It went very quickly and quickly.
But I think our officers are smart enough to operate those metal detectors and ground penetrating radars in Ukraine.
And that will be very helpful in clearing our territory of Russian mines."
Cambodia is considered to be one of the most mine-ridden countries in the world.
The South Asian country is still mine-ridden after three decades of war and internal strife.
An estimated four to six million unexploded ordnance remains underground.
Cambodian deminers have built up the relevant expertise – now even over several generations.
The Ukrainians are now benefiting from this, even after eleven months of war and dealing with the booby traps left behind by the Russian attackers as they retreated from previously conquered areas.
In the future, the training will continue in Poland.
Oum Phumro, Deputy General Manager CMAC
“We will send our experts to Poland to train Ukrainians with the same machines, but we will adjust the training according to the situation in Europe, because now we only train them in Cambodia, which is in Asia.
We will continue the training in Europe where they can apply the equipment and technology in a real situation.«
Completely ridding Ukraine of Russian mines is a mammoth task.
According to estimates by Ukrainian experts, it could take five to seven years before these are completely cleared - and that's not counting the areas currently occupied by Russia.