About 30, 5 thousand hectares of sown areas in need of clearance in the self-proclaimed people's Republic of Lugansk, said the Minister of agriculture and food Yuri Roshchupkin.

Since the beginning of the special operation of Ukrainian forces in the Donbass most cities in the region are regularly subjected to shelling. Rescuers periodically carry out work on the detection and disposal of unexploded ordnance.

"mines in the fields the very complex issue. At the beginning, the area was estimated in the range of 10 thousand hectares. It was not so anxious

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