More than 326,000 people informed about mine risks: 2025 highlights

In 2025, the Ukrainian Red Cross team working in Explosive Ordnance Risk Education and Safer Behaviour expanded its activities to five additional regions. Today, awareness activities cover all regions of Ukraine.

Over the year, our specialists delivered:

• more than 14,000 information sessions;
• 326,019 people received life-saving knowledge about mine risks and safer behaviour.

The teams work with people of all ages — from young children to older adults — because understanding risks saves lives, no matter your age.

Awareness activities take place where they are needed most: in schools, community centres, and outdoors. Following shelling or during the clearance of attack sites, teams respond rapidly to warn people directly about possible explosive hazards near their homes, in courtyards, and on the streets. This timely action helps reduce risks and prevent tragedies.

The team continues to grow, learn, strengthen its skills, and refine its approaches to ensure that complex but critically important information is delivered clearly, accessibly, and at the right time.

We are on the ground to explain, to warn, and to save lives.