The United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF, has donated 15 "mobile safety classrooms" to Ukraine to teach children and adults how to protect themselves from mines and other explosive devices.
"We are starting to implement an initiative to raise public awareness of mines and other threats, including in the de-occupied and frontline territories," Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said on Monday.
According to the prime minister, 15 mobile safety classes, transferred to the Rescue Service and the Police of Ukraine as part of this initiative, will travel to 10 regions of the country and teach people, including children, how to avoid mines.
Denys Shmyhal reminds that, according to government estimates, 174,000 square kilometers of Ukraine are covered with mines and unexploded ordnance. Almost 250 people have already been killed and about 500 injured in the country as a result of explosions.
Background. Military expert Mykhailo Zhyrokhov told Mind about the demining process in Ukraine, its problems and solutions in this area in his article "Mine danger: Ukraine is gradually clearing its territories of explosive contamination".