The Russian forces are planting thousands of land mines that will destroy these swaths of farmland by proxy and guarantee that the countries enduring food insecurity today will face famine tomorrow.
Imagine you’re in a car, driving along an unpaved country road in Ukraine. It’s February, but poking out from the snow on either side of the road, you can see hundreds of acres of blackened, unharvested sunflowers. A quarter of a mile ahead of you, a dark green military truck appears on the horizon. Wanting to keep your distance, you stop and watch as the vehicle maneuvers perpendicular to the road, pointing the back of the truck toward the sunflower field.
These land mines won’t go away by themselves when the conflict ends. Although the U.S. State Department is investing $91.5 million of dollars this year in helping the Ukrainians remove the Russian land mines, Congress is continuing to debate spending, and lawmakers are looking to slash the budget any way they can. We need to let our legislators know that we support the State Department’s investment in mine-clearing efforts in Ukraine.
To keep the same from happening in Ukraine, it’s important to invest in de-mining early on. This is a smart taxpayer investment. According to Tirre, “Removing land mines prevents injuries and fatalities, improves food security, preserves critical infrastructure, and makes hospitals and schools safe.” For Ukraine to recover, we need to be removing as many mines as we can right now.
Depending on which kinds of land mines are inside the rockets, there could be as many as 72 smaller land mines nested inside each rocket. One Zemledeliye vehicle can spray 3,600 land mines at a time onto prime agricultural land.
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