{"id":54095,"date":"2022-11-01T16:53:57","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T23:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=54095"},"modified":"2022-11-02T10:54:32","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T17:54:32","slug":"united-states-launches-47-6-million-demining-training-project-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=54095","title":{"rendered":"United States Launches $47.6 Million Demining Training Project in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>11\/01\/2022 05:04 PM EDT<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Office of the Spokesperson<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">On September 30, the Department awarded $47.6 million to Tetra Tech, Inc. of Pasadena, California to provide urgent humanitarian demining assistance to Ukraine in the face of Russia\u2019s brutal war of aggression.\u00a0 Under the terms of the project, Tetra Tech will strengthen the Government of Ukraine\u2019s capacity to locate and remove landmines, unexploded and abandoned ordnance, improvised explosive devices, and other explosive hazards from civilian areas.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Tetra Tech will train the Government of Ukraine demining and EOD teams to international standards and provide them with the tools necessary to do their jobs.\u00a0 The project also supports deploying additional clearance teams and explosive ordnance risk education teams through the local non-governmental organization Ukrainian Deminers Association.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">This project forms part of the $91.5 million in demining assistance that the Department will provide over the coming year to help the Government of Ukraine address the urgent humanitarian challenges posed by explosive remnants of war created by Russia\u2019s horrific actions.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Russia\u2019s unlawful war and full-scale invasion of Ukraine has littered massive swaths of the country with landmines, unexploded ordnance, and improvised explosive devices.\u00a0 These explosive hazards block access to farmland, impede reconstruction efforts, prevent displaced people from returning to their homes, and continue to kill and maim innocent Ukrainian civilians.\u00a0 The Government of Ukraine estimates that 160,000 square kilometers of its land may be contaminated \u2013 this is roughly the size of Virginia, Maryland, and Connecticut combined.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Since 1993, the United States has invested more than $4.7 billion for the safe clearance of landmines and explosive weapons of war as well as the securing and safe disposal of excess small arms and light weapons and munitions in more than 100 countries and territories.\u00a0\u00a0The United States is the world\u2019s single largest financial supporter of conventional weapons destruction.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11\/01\/2022 05:04 PM EDT &nbsp; Office&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54096,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54095\/revisions\/54096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}