Thick flurries of snow fell in the forest as a Ukrainian man repeatedly shouted out ‘left, right, left, right’. His ten-strong team in pale-blue body armour followed his orders with metal detectors moving in synchronised style across the frozen ground.Several spots were marked off where they had discovered cluster munitions, along with the sensor from a guided missile. Nearby, across an icy road and close to the market place of a small village, they had found a Russian rocket lying deep in mud.Their work – clearing up deadly debris from Vladimir ’s invasion in an area liberated earlier this year – is cold, painstakingly slow and potentially dangerous.
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