856
Training participants
Across six regions of Ukraine.
Impact
Results from the field.
People trained. Land surveyed by drone. Hazards located. Communities reached.
Measured impact
2025 in the field.
Throughout 2025, IGR delivered training, aerial survey, community engagement, and humanitarian support across Ukraine.
The figures below reflect that work: training participants, land surveyed, explosive hazards identified, and communities reached.
2025 activity results
2025 in numbers.
Reported results from IGR activities across Ukraine.
5,117,223m²
Area surveyed by drone
Land assessed through aerial survey for explosive threats.
392
Explosive hazards located
Threats identified through field activity.
365
Community engagement beneficiaries
People reached through direct engagement.
1,100
Humanitarian response beneficiaries
People supported through response activity.
Behind the numbers
What the work accomplished.
Training strengthened the people doing the work. Drone survey identified where threats remained. Community and humanitarian support reached people living with the consequences.
Aerial survey
Identifying where threats remain.
IGR surveyed more than 5.1 million square metres by drone and located 392 explosive hazards, giving responders and authorities clearer information for planning and safer access.
Training
Practical skills for safer communities.
In 2025, IGR reported 856 training participants across six regions of Ukraine. Training included demining, medical training, and explosive ordnance risk education (EORE).
Community and humanitarian response
Connecting field operations to people.
In 2025, IGR reported 365 community engagement beneficiaries and 1,100 humanitarian response beneficiaries in Ukraine. These figures are reported separately.
Where training reached
Six regions. 856 training participants.
IGR delivered training across western, central, northern, and eastern Ukraine, with the largest concentrations in Kharkiv and Chernihiv.
Independent evidence
The work is documented beyond IGR.
Official announcements from Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence and the OSCE, together with independent reporting and interviews, document the programs, field experience, and operating environment connected to IGR’s work.
Official program result · OSCE
Ukrainian demining personnel trained with OSCE and EU support
Confirms the IMAS-aligned EOD course and participating Ukrainian demining agencies.
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Official announcement · Ministry of Defence of Ukraine
Veterans of NATO member-state armies will train Ukrainian sappers
Documents the launch and purpose of the OSCE-supported EOD training initiative.
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IGR in the media · UNITED24 Media
Is modern technology enough to free Ukraine from landmines?
Features Stu Miller’s field perspective and documents the incident that injured Monty.
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Sector context · Euromaidan Press
Ukraine deploys demining drones in the battle for the Dnipro
Reporting on contamination, operational risk, and emerging approaches to clearance.
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Podcast · Cleared Hot
Michael Montoya: I Left My Foot in Ukraine
Monty discusses his EOD career, the June 2023 landmine incident, recovery, and the work that became IGR.
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Video coverage · UNITED24 Media
Western veterans demining Ukraine
Watch the video interview on IGR’s field work and the operating environment in Ukraine.
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