Cambodia gives Ukraine sniffer dogs to help in detecting mines

As the war in Ukraine approaches one year, the country is slowly, but surely recovering from the Russian invasion.

Case in point: They're already receiving sniffer dogs from Cambodia to help in demining their explosive ridden country.

Oum Phumro, deputy secretary general of the Cambodian Mine Action Center, said his country is giving Ukraine experienced sniffer dogs and training them on how to use them to detect mines.

“Our deminers have experience clearing mines for about 30 years and we have trained many countries,” he said. “Today we are proud that we are training Ukrainian deminers.”

According to Ukrainian deminer Stanislav Kulykiusky, his team was grateful for the training. He said that 64 deminers had been injured and 13 killed in the line of duty in Ukraine.

“It is a very difficult situation,” he said.

Cambodia trains Ukrainian deminers on how to use sniffer dogs in detecting explosives

Cambodia and Ukraine have been listed among the nine countries with “massive” mine contamination. According to the report filed by Landmine Monitor in 2022, both countries have more than 100 square kilometers (38.6 square miles) of uncleared fields.

This isn't the country's first foray into minefields clearing. Several thousand Cambodia deminers have been sent in the past decade under U.N. auspices to work in Africa and the Middle East.

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