On May 29, 2018, we began establishing ourselves as a mine action operator. In cooperation with the Kyiv State Technical Expert Center, we obtained a permit to work with explosives from the State Labor Service.
On May 26, we received our first certificates for work: non-technical survey, technical survey, manual demining, and clearing of combat zones. It was a very difficult period, as we became the first Ukrainian operator with such certificates. At the same time, state certification and quality control bodies were also becoming operationally ready.
On June 6, we began demining near Mariupol, and on August 27, we handed over the first section near the village of Lebedynske. We were among the first to pass the state inspection for external quality control according to the National Standard PMD 8820:2018, which was only adopted in 2019. After that, we immediately started working in the Sartana and Talakivka areas on even more difficult sections. In fact, our second base after Kyiv was the village of Sopino, east of Mariupol, once a popular tourist destination in the region, which had become almost deserted.
COVID-19 brought significant challenges to our company during its formation, as it did to most businesses in Ukraine. However, we not only managed to survive, but also entered into new contracts with powerful European energy companies in the south of the Zaporizhzhia region. This also gave us experience in dealing with remnants of World War II.
As of 2021, we remained the only operator with all valid certificates. In the same year, together with the Ukrainian Association of Deminers, we launched a large-scale information campaign called “Let’s Clean Up Donbas Together!” Its goal was not only to conduct humanitarian demining of the agricultural college’s territory, but also to draw the attention of the wider community to the problems of mined territories in Donetsk region.
At the same time, in the territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions controlled by the Ukrainian government, we taught people the safety rules for detecting explosive objects. In 2022, we planned to continue cleaning up Donbas and conducting mine risk education in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, but 2022 brought its own adjustments.
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