A total of 1,083 civilians have been injured by Russian anti-personnel mines since the beginning of the large-scale invasion, according to Defence Ministry. Of these, 333 people were killed and 750 injured. The Kharkiv, Kherson, and Mykolayiv Regions remain the most heavily contaminated areas among the liberated territories.
These figures were presented by the Main Directorate of Mine Action, Civil Protection, and Environmental Safety of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine during the Fifth Review Conference (5RC) on the Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production, and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction. The conference took place in the Kingdom of Cambodia as part of the Siem Reap-Angkor Summit.
The event was attended by representatives from 90 states parties, 12 observer countries to the Ottawa Convention, and nearly 20 delegations from various international organisations.
The Ukrainian delegation informed the international community in detail about Russia’s crimes involving the use of anti-personnel mines against civilians and its attacks on humanitarian demining groups.
They also shared updates on efforts to clear areas contaminated by Russian anti-personnel mines and the progress achieved by the Ministry of Defence in 2024.
As part of a non-technical survey, 35,000 km² of territory was marked as free from evidence of mine-related risks, reducing the estimated contaminated area from 174,000 km² to 139,000 km².