KYIV, Jan 3 – In 2023, Ukrainian farmers resumed work on 208,000 hectares of demined land, the capabilities of the State Emergency Service and the State Special Transport Service of Ukraine were improved, the development of domestic mine clearance machinery and equipment production began, a pool of international donors was formed to help Ukraine in mine action, First Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko, who is also the Economy Minister, has said.

"We started the year 2023 with not very comforting numbers: no heavy mine clearance vehicles, six mine action operators, 1,500 deminers. We started the new year with almost 30 vehicles, 26 operators and more than 3,000 deminers. And also, with assurances from partners about their readiness to invest almost half a billion euros in humanitarian demining of Ukraine. Some partner countries and international organizations have already begun to allocate these funds," the press service of the Economy Ministry quoted Svyrydenko, who summed up the work on the country's mine action in 2023.