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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Maira Butt

‘Where there were bombs, there are now sunflowers’: The woman ridding Ukraine of Russian mines

Every morning, Antonina Kulhava wakes up to the whirr of Russian drones.

After checking local alerts to ensure her family and friends are safe, she commutes to her job as a humanitarian deminer at one of Ukraine’s many fields littered with bombs. Her team face grave danger as they comb through craters of mud left by missiles, in fields once tilled by farmers.

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