HRAKOVE, Ukraine - A Ukrainian farmer has come up with a novel way to remove mines left in his fields after Russia's invasion — he's kitted out his tractor with protective panels stripped from Russian tanks and operates it by remote control. After Russian forces were driven back from parts of eastern Ukraine by a Ukrainian counteroffensive last year, mines...
A remote controlled demining machine, created by local farmer Oleksandr Kryvtsov with his tractor and armoured plates from destroyed Russian military vehicles, is seen during demining of an agricultural field, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, near the village of Hrakove, in Kharkiv region, Ukraine on April 26HRAKOVE, Ukraine - A Ukrainian farmer has come up with a novel way to remove mines left in his fields after Russia's invasion — he's kitted out his tractor with protective...
Fields around the village of Hrakove are no exception. Oleksandr Kryvtsov, a general manager at his agricultural company, decided he couldn't wait for help from overworked official deminers to clear his field. "We started doing this just because the crop-sowing time has come and we can’t do anything because the rescue services are very busy," Kryvtsov told Reuters.
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