As Ukrainian forces slowly push ahead with their 2023 counteroffensive after more than a year of shifting battle lines, the country’s military and civilians face a deadly problem: land mines, potentially hundreds of thousands of them, scattered across roads, buried in fields, and concealed in devastated cities.

The success of the Ukrainian Army destroyed another exciting piece of Russian military equipment – a modified BTR-80 armored personnel carried with a UMZ remote minelaying system installed on top.