In the hills outside the village of Vilkhivka, east of the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, the remnants of the Russian occupation are strewn across the landscape.
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Empty ammunition boxes are left discarded on a hillside. Crates for transporting rockets sit among the weeds. Russian tank tracks remain seared into the ground.
And then there's what you can't see.
Beneath these fields lie anti-personnel mines designed to maim and terrorise the civilian population.
They are a departing gift from Russian forces, left before they were overrun by Ukrainian fighters.
A unit of brave de-miners is working its way through the field, clearing a safe path for the local electricity company workers who are trying to repair the damage done to the power supply.
Artur Silchenko is leading the team of de-miners.
Built like a nightclub bouncer, with a no-nonsense persona to match, the 25-year-old has the unenviable role of neutralising the unexploded devices that are now scattered across this area.
"We check fields, forests, riversides, private households and commercial buildings. We work with all kinds of explosive devices," he tells the ABC.
Included in their broad brief is defusing booby traps and mines that have been placed in the homes of families who fled the nearby villages when the Russians invaded.
"Most of the time they're near the fence or the gates and the door thresholds," he says.
"Near Kyiv, there was a case where they put a mine under a child's pillow."
There have been reports of a grenade placed inside a 10-year-old's piano in Bucha and claims made by one surgeon of teddy bears being booby trapped.
Artur says his team has seen firsthand evidence of children being targeted.
"We found two booby traps near a child's cot and, in a few other cases, inside a child's room," he says.
When asked how he feels about children's rooms being mined, he looks at the ground in despair and shakes his head.
"I don't know what to say. It's terrible," he says.
"I don't understand. Why you would do that? These are children."
De-miners take their lives into their own hands
This is extraordinarily dangerous work.
Three of the unit's men were killed near Kharkiv on April 17, while de-mining cluster munitions.
Another four were badly injured in the same incident.
Two weeks ago, another two members of a mine-clearing team were admitted to hospital after a mine was detonated.
Ihor Ovcharuk — the acting chief of humanitarian de-mining for the Kharkiv region — was one of those injured in the most recent incident, which occurred on May 9.
The ABC spoke to him just days after he checked himself out of hospital and returned to work.
"We had been working at the checkpoint near Ruska Lozova when an anti-personnel mine detonated," he says.
"I injured my face, hands, leg and knee. I am OK. I have minor injuries, but my colleague is more seriously injured and he is still in the hospital.
"Unfortunately, he lost a part of his leg. He had injuries to the lungs, and they are trying to [save] his left eye and his left ear."
Under Ihor's supervision, more than 3,500 de-mining trips have been conducted, and more than 2,200 explosive devices have been cleared.
This week, he was awarded the prestigious Ukrainian Order of Courage.
Despite this award for valour, he does not consider himself any kind of hero.
"I am just doing regular work," he insists.
Claims Russian soldiers are mining bodies of fallen comrades
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned over a month ago there was evidence that Russian soldiers were booby trapping people's homes as they withdrew from the northern areas of his country.
"They are mining all this territory," he said in one of his late-night addresses to the nation.
"Mining houses, equipment, even the bodies of killed people. Too many trip-wire mines. Too many other dangers."
These warnings soon proved prescient for those who have homes in the villages north of Kharkiv.
After Tsyrkuny was liberated from the Russians on May 7, the local Governor, Oleh Synyehubov, announced that two women in the village had been killed by booby traps.
Vasyl Bilous is one of the people who helps warn communities about the dangers of mines.
An academic with a PhD in criminology, in wartime he found himself volunteering with the Joint Forces of Kharkiv.
They are helping residents integrate back into the villages.
"I am outraged that the Russian occupiers have polluted the Ukrainian land, not only with their own bodies but with all these mines and booby traps too," he says.
"There are many cases of booby traps being placed in electronic devices.
"This is one of the crimes of the Russian Federation towards humanity when they are using such objects to make children and other people suffer."
He says that his counterparts from other units have discovered evidence of Russia mining the bodies of their own fallen soldiers.
The ABC has not been able to independently verify these reports, but they back up allegations made by Ukraine's President.
"They even put traps on their own soldiers' bodies," Vasyl says.
"Now our sappers have to de-mine the body, then take it and bring it to identification, and later send it to Russia."
Artur Silchenko says he has never seen evidence of this, but he has heard about it and his workers now take appropriate precautions.
"We take special equipment with us, so you can fix a hook to the body to make sure it's not trapped," he says.
"We then pull and turn the body around to make sure there is nothing under it."
'The destiny of these people will be different'
In the months since the Russian invasion, surgeon Sergiy Belashov has had to deal with a range of traumatic injuries from artillery, missile strikes and now landmines.
"Usually [landmine victims] have injuries of the limbs, chest, abdomen as well as the head," Dr Belashov says.
"Fragmentations can hit various parts of the body.
"We provide first aid here to these patients as well as redistributing them to other medical institutions or hospitals if needed."
Asked how he feels about seeing wounds from mines and booby traps left in homes in villages surrounding the city, he says he has to try to control his emotions.
"Of course I feel anger," he says.
"I have to hold myself in order to keep working when I come across such cases.
"These are very terrible injuries, the destiny of these people will be different after such injuries as many will be disabled for the rest of their lives."
In the field outside of Vilkhivka, Artur takes a call.
He's been summoned to the nearby village of Stepanky to help de-mine a house.
Despite the risks to him and his colleagues, his crew never turns down a request for help.
"We find the strength," he says.
"We know who we are working for: our families, for children, for the common good."
"We and the armed forces of Ukraine are doing the work that needs to be done together."
