In the Kharkiv region, more than 6 thousand hectares of agricultural land will be cleared of mines by 2025.

More than 40 thousand hectares in the Kharkiv region are considered potentially dangerous or mined. In 2025, there were more than 60 cases of civilians being blown up as a result of contact with explosive objects, with fatalities and injuries, reports Slobodskoy Krai. It is noted that in the Kharkiv region, a significant part of which was under temporary occupation, and some areas still remain a zone of active hostilities, tens of thousands of hectares of land have been recognized as contaminated or potentially posing a threat due to explosive objects. As stated by Ruslan Misyunya, the coordinator of the communication and media department of the Mine Action Coordination Center at the Kharkiv Regional State Administration, according to the results of a non-technical survey as of the beginning of December 2025, over 2,85 thousand areas covering 40.3 thousand hectares in the region were given the status of probable contaminated and contaminated territories with explosive objects. ...