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In Ukraine, mines take lives even after fighting moves on

A ruined tank on a road in Lypivka, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, June 14, 2022. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is spreading a deadly litter of mines, bombs and other explosive devices that will endanger civilian lives and limbs long after the fighting stops. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

A poster warning about mines lies beside a road in Lypivka, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, June 14, 2022. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is spreading a deadly litter of mines, bombs and other explosive devices that will endanger civilian lives and limbs long after the fighting stops. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Weaponry lay beside a road near Makariv, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, June 14, 2022. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is spreading a deadly litter of mines, bombs and other explosive devices that will endanger civilian lives and limbs long after the fighting stops. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Tetiana Kutsenko enters her home that was occupied by Russian soldiers in Makariv, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, June 14, 2022. When Kutsenko got back her home that Russian troops had occupied, she found bloodstains and an apparent bullet hole on the bathroom floor and tripwires in her back yard. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Flowers inside of a wreckage of a burned out van that triggered an anti-tank mine, killing its three occupants, lies by the side of a dirt track in Andriyivka, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, June 14, 2022. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is spreading a deadly litter of mines, bombs and other explosive devices that will endanger civilian lives and limbs long after the fighting stops. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

A mine detection worker with the HALO Trust de-mining NGO takes a break while from searching for anti-tank and anti personnel land mines in Lypivka, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, June 14, 2022. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is spreading a deadly litter of mines, bombs and other explosive devices that will endanger civilian lives and limbs long after the fighting stops. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

A mine detection worker with the HALO Trust de-mining NGO searches for anti-tank and anti personnel land mines in Lypivka, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, June 14, 2022. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is spreading a deadly litter of mines, bombs and other explosive devices that will endanger civilian lives and limbs long after the fighting stops. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Tetiana Kutsenko stands outside her home that was occupied by Russian soldiers in Makariv, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, June 14, 2022. When Kutsenko got back her home that Russian troops had occupied, she found bloodstains and an apparent bullet hole on the bathroom floor and tripwires in her back yard. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Vadym Schvydchenko stands next to his truck recently damaged by a mine on a dirt track near Makariv, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, June 14, 2022. The detonation of the 7.5-kilogram (16-pound) explosive charge blew Vadym Schvydchenko and his daughter's toy clean out of the cabin. The truck — and his livelihood — went up in flames. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

A mine detection worker with the HALO Trust de-mining NGO explains how they search for anti-tank and anti personnel land mines in Lypivka, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, June 14, 2022. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is spreading a deadly litter of mines, bombs and other explosive devices that will endanger civilian lives and limbs long after the fighting stop. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Cans of food lay next to a wreckage of a burned out van that triggered an anti-tank mine, killing its three occupants, lies by the side of a dirt track in Andriyivka, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, June 14, 2022. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is spreading a deadly litter of mines, bombs and other explosive devices that will endanger civilian lives and limbs long after the fighting stop. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Tetiana Kutsenko stands outside her home that was occupied by Russian soldiers in Makariv, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, June 14, 2022. When Kutsenko got back her home that Russian troops had occupied, she found bloodstains and an apparent bullet hole on the bathroom floor and tripwires in her back yard. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

The inside of a wreckage of a burned out van that triggered an anti-tank mine, killing its three occupants, lies by the side of a dirt track in Andriyivka, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, June 14, 2022. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is spreading a deadly litter of mines, bombs and other explosive devices that will endanger civilian lives and limbs long after the fighting stops. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

A poster warning about mines in Makariv, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, June 14, 2022. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is spreading a deadly litter of mines, bombs and other explosive devices that will endanger civilian lives and limbs long after the fighting stops. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

The wreckage of a burned out van that triggered an anti-tank mine, killing its three occupants, lies by the side of a dirt track in Andriyivka, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, June 14, 2022. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is spreading a deadly litter of mines, bombs and other explosive devices that will endanger civilian lives and limbs long after the fighting stops. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Tetiana Kutsenko stands at the entrance of her home that was occupied by Russian soldiers in Makariv, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, June 14, 2022. When Kutsenko got back her home that Russian troops had occupied, she found bloodstains and an apparent bullet hole on the bathroom floor and tripwires in her back yard. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

A mine detection worker with the HALO Trust de-mining NGO takes a break while from searching for anti-tank and anti personnel land mines in Lypivka, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, June 14, 2022. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is spreading a deadly litter of mines, bombs and other explosive devices that will endanger civilian lives and limbs long after the fighting stops. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Unexploded shells and other weaponry lay beside a road near Makariv, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, June 14, 2022. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is spreading a deadly litter of mines, bombs and other explosive devices that will endanger civilian lives and limbs long after the fighting stops. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Flowers in a field near a poster warning about mines in Lypivka, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, June 14, 2022. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is spreading a deadly litter of mines, bombs and other explosive devices that will endanger civilian lives and limbs long after the fighting stops. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Vadym Schvydchenko stands next to his truck recentely damaged by a mine on a dirt track near Makariv, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, June 14, 2022. The detonation of the 7.5-kilogram (16-pound) explosive charge blew Vadym Schvydchenko and his daughter's toy clean out of the cabin. The truck — and his livelihood — went up in flames. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

In Ukraine, mines take lives even after fighting moves on