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85. With the HALO trust in Ukraine

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🗓️ 6 September 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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This week we bring you more material recorded from our time in Ukraine, this time Saul speaks to Pete Smith - HALO's programme manager in Ukraine - who gave us a briefing on the situation regarding mines and unexploded ordinance in Ukraine, before taking us out to visit a minefield in the outskirts of Kyiv. Saul also speaks to the HALO teams translator Ivan, who tells us about how he managed to escape from Russian occupied Mariupol. If you have any thoughts or questions, you can send them to - [email protected] Producer: James Hodgson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hello and welcome to this week's big interview with me, Saul David and Patrick Bishop.

1:21.6

Well, coming up, we've got some more material from our trip to Ukraine,

1:27.4

and this time with some members of the Halo Trust who are providing vital humanitarian aid on the ground by clearing

1:27.9

minefields and unexploded ordinance from Ukraine's soil. And first up, we have a briefing by

1:33.4

Pete Smith, Halo's program manager in Ukraine. So, Sol, welcome to Halo Ukraine here in Brovery.

1:41.3

We're looking forward to taking you around a number of the minefields to see some of our men and women that we have on the program that have been with us now

1:49.0

for several years, some of whom have been in Haley Ukraine since 2015. But as a program, we've

1:55.0

been expanding since the beginning of this year, and we're now at some 900 strong born in the regions of Khratosk, where

2:03.6

was our family home to start with, Mikhailayev and Kharkiv, but also significant numbers

2:08.9

of deminers that we've recruited and trained up here in Kyiv.

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