Unexploded ordinance

Ukrainian Interior ministry sappers collect explosives in a hole to detonate them near a mine field in the village of Moshchun, close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 19, 2022. Russia ratcheted up its battle for control of Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland on Tuesday, intensifying assaults on cities and towns along a front hundreds of miles long in what officials on both sides described as a new phase of the war. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

How the State Department deals with one of the worst legacies of ground wars

Imagine getting injured or killed by a piece of ordnance months or years after a war has ended. Yet this occurs all-too-frequently around the world thanks…

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