A Ukrainian farmer has designed a remote-controlled demining tractor using parts from destroyed Russian tanks.
Oleksandr Kryvtsov, who runs an agricultural company in the eastern Ukrainian village of Hrakove, is using panels stripped from Russian armor to protect his tractor from any mines that might explode, according to Reuters.
“We started doing it only because it’s time for planting and we can’t do anything because the rescue services are very busy,” he told the news agency.
“We hit an anti-tank mine. The protection was broken [but] the tractor is safe,” added Kryvtsov. “Everyone is alive and safe. The equipment was restored and repaired.”
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Footage captured by Reuters shows a nearby worker suspended in the bucket of an excavator operating the tractor by remote control.
“The amount of work is huge,” Serhii Dudak, who is overseeing the tractor demining effort, told Reuters. “It would take years to clear this particular field by hand and to ensure that there are no mines here.”
Last week, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said 30 percent of the country had been mined by Russia since it launched its invasion last year, Reuters also reported.
Also last week, a US Navy veteran was killed in Ukraine, an activist group said.
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Cooper “Harris” Andrews, 26, was hit by a mortar on April 19, during a battle for a crucial road to Bakmut, the Resistance Committee said in a statement posted on social media.
He reportedly died while defending the evacuees along with others who were killed.
Andrews joined the Foreign Legion, a group of foreign fighters assisting Ukrainian forces since it was invaded by Russia, according to social media posts.
He served in the Marines from January 2017 to January 16, 2022, a US official told Fox News. He was stationed at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, before being discharged as a ground electronics transmission systems maintainer and traveling to the Ukraine.
Louis Casiano of Fox News contributed to this report.
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