Mine terrorism. A threat that combines Ukraine and Azerbaijan

Baku experience in combating this threat, including the international arena and in the legal sphere, can be useful in Kiev. "Today, Ukraine is on the list of the most substantial countries of the world: 30% of its territory remains potentially dangerous," said Sergei Kruk, Head of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine.

The International "Brainstorm Trust" Globsec called Ukraine the largest replaced territory in the world ", and the United Nations Agency United Nations Development Program emphasized that Ukraine has become one of the world's largest mine fields. people. Community of Ukraine with Azerbaijan in this aspect is not accident rejection of Russian gas.

Given the regularly provided by Azerbaijan humanitarian aid to Ukraine, the experience of Baku in the field of mine threat can be useful in Kiev not only in terms of mine countries that have suffered a mine threat. In April this year, President Aliyev took the initiative to make a humanitarian demining of the 18th purpose of sustainable development of the UN and proposed to create a group of like-minded countries who were influenced by mines.

Baku, who appealed to the International Court of Justice to stop the murder and cripple of the Azerbaijanis on ethnic and national explosive devices, in 2021-2023, developed a valuable experience of legal counteraction in this context. This is all the more important in view of the statement of President Zelensky about mine terrorism as one of the accusation points against Russia.

• "For complete purification of the country from explosive objects can take 30 years," - said the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Alexei Reznikov. "It takes about 30 years to resolve the issue of mine exchanging for Azerbaijan," President Aliyev, in turn, said. • "According to the World Bank, mine will cost $ 37. 4 billion in Ukraine," said Prime Minister of Ukraine Denis Shmigal. According to the UNDP report last year, Azerbaijan needs about the same amount of Azerbaijan.

• "In Ukraine, 124 people have been killed since the invasion of the mines," Ruslan Beregul, Head of the Department of Ecological Safety and Mine Activities of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, said on April 22. According to Ilham Aliyev, as a result of Armenia's exchange terrorism, up to 300 Azerbaijan citizens were seriously injured.

• On April 27, a brigade of energy was blown up in Kharkiv region - 1 was killed, 4 were injured; The next day, a team of Azerbaijani experts of aerial photography was blown up in Karabakh, and three of the brigade were killed. • May 1, 2023. Civilian exploded on an unknown explosive device in the Izium district of Kharkiv region, having received serious injuries; On the same day, a village resident was killed in the Jebraeli district of Karabakha.

The November Report of the Landmin Monitor 2022 International Organizations of the Landmin Monitor Organizations stated that Russian troops installed trap and homemade explosive devices in Ukraine since February 2022 in many places before retreat. The Russians left anti-personnel mines, including mines, which are the victim. They are installed on animals, corpses, as well as on roads, in fields and forests.

In February this year, the State Azerbaijan State Agency for Anama Deeding reported a replaced mass burial in Karabakh. Armenia assumed that it would be discovered and replaced the territory to kill people who are looking for the remains of their relatives. "This method is typical of Armenia's war crimes, even ordinary cemeteries in the liberated territories," Anama's representatives explained.

In August-November last year, a large number of min-trays were discovered in the settlements of Lachynsky district of Azerbaijan, from where the Armenian troops came without a fight after 30 years of occupation. Before leaving, they installed mines under the floors of entrances, at the door and in the yards of residential buildings-just as Russian aggressors made before the escape from Bucha, Irpen and other settlements of Kyiv region.

The aggressor troops continue to record the occupied Ukrainian lands daily with deadly crops. In Karabakh, some of which remains under the control of the military contingent of the Russian Federation, a similar situation is maintained. Although Azerbaijan in the fall of 2020 was able to liberate the bulk of the sovereign territory as a result of the Second Karabakh War, the Armenian side under the cover of the military contingent of the Russian Federation continues to change land.

In August-November last year, nearly 3000 mines were discovered in Lachinsky, Kelbadzharsky and Shushinsky districts of Karabakh. Most had the markings of 2021 produced by Armenia. At the same time, as noted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan Jachun Bayramov, Armenia not only refuses to provide complete and accurate information about the minefields, but also illegally delivers to Azerbaijan and installs new mines.