KHERSON OBLAST, Ukraine – More than two years of fighting with Russia has made Ukraine one of the world’s most mined countries. CBN News traveled to a frontline area where Ukrainian forces are in one of the largest mine clearing operations since World War 2.
“You have to always look on the ground and also keep your eyes ahead. Look left, look right, in front of you, and certainly under your feet,” Ukrainian Army Engineer Yaroslav Kastran told us.
For Kastran, every step brings deadly risk. “You need to be brave to do this job,” he said.
A husband and father of two, Kastran is part of Ukraine’s Armed Forces’ elite mine-clearing division.
“Every day my wife tells me to take care of myself. I’m on a mission to clean my land of everything evil that Russia brought to us so that the kids and people who walk these fields and through the roads can do so without any danger to themselves,” he explained.
At an undisclosed field near Ukraine’s frontline here in the south, Kastran invited CBN News to witness as he and fellow mine clearers scoured what was once a battlefront with Russian forces.
In almost every direction you look, you see red
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