About Us
UDA is the largest Ukrainian Mine Action operator with over seven years of experience. In terms of beneficiary coverage, the organization ranks among the TOP three Mine Action operators in Ukraine.
In 2024, the National Register of Records of Ukraine recorded UDA’s record for the most extensive EORE training of the population: over 7,000 sessions and more than 190,000 people covered.
UDA implements a complex of humanitarian demining activities in the de-occupied and affected territories of Ukraine, working in the Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Sumy, Kherson, Kharkiv, and Chernihiv regions.
What we do
Detect mined areas
Clear territories
Explosive Ordnance Disposal
Train demining experts
Explosive Ordnanse Risk Education
Mine Victim Assistance
In 2025, UDA once again confirmed its compliance with the highest international standards and received certificates of conformity for processes that allow it to carry out a full cycle of land clearance work.
UDA provides training and professional development for:
- Administrative staff;
- Operational and program staff: EORE instructors, NTS specialists, deminers, humanitarian workers, internal trainers (TOT), advanced training.
The training of our personnel is provided, among others, through cooperation with our partners GICHD, MAT Kosovo, TetraTech, MAG, Save the Children Leadership School, etc.
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Frequently Asked Questions
It is a non-governmental organization, association of sappers of Ukraine, representation of the public sector in the sphere of Mine Action (MA).
It is about 400 sappers from all over Ukraine, combat sappers on the front line, pyrotechnics of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, sappers-deminers for humanitarian demining.
It is participation in all legislative MA processes of Ukraine. Development of the MA Strategy, national standards, ongoing assistance to the National Mine Action Authority of Ukraine, the Ministry of Economy, the Ministry of Education and Science and other ministries and agencies, the main MA stakeholders.
Ukrainian Deminers Association (UDA) is a national organization that was proudly created in Ukraine and for Ukraine.
Yes, it is the first non-profit Ukrainian organization that has recived certificats for the main processes of demining and Explosive ordnance risk education (EORE).
Including manual demining, clearance of combat areas, technical and non-technical survey of territories.
Yes, since the UDA creation it has been additional national platform for negotiations regarding assistance to Ukraine in the field of Mine Action.
Yes, the Association constantly implements more than 10 humanitarian projects, which concern:
– Mine victim assistance (MVA);
– Explosive ordnance risk education (EORE). UDA is one of the first organizations in Ukraine to receive certification for this type of activity;
– training in preparedness and protection in case of conflict (PPC);
– humanitarian demining.
Currently, the exact area of mined territories is unknown. There is ongoing process of non-technical survey of the territory (NTS), after its completion it will be possible to say the approximate area.
While this process continues, we call these areas potentially dangerous. According to the data of the national mine action agency, the total area of potentially dangerous areas is 138,503 square km.
Demining is divided into 3 types:
- combat demining – is carried out directly by the military in the combat zone;
- operational – pyrotechnics of the State Emergency Service and the military are responsible for it;
- humanitarian – its main difference from other types of demining is that it is not carried out for the sake of demining, but for the purpose of releasing the land to the end user with appropriate guarantees of quality and safety. Ukrainian Deminers Association caries out this type of demining.
According to Article 1 of the Law of Ukraine “On mine action in Ukraine”, humanitarian demining can be carried out by: “…mine action operators – authorized subdivisions of central executive bodies, enterprises, institutions and organizations regardless of the form of ownership, including international and foreign, that are involved in conducting activities in the field of mine action”.
In accordance with Article 9 of the same law: “The procedure for accounting of business entities and non-profit enterprises, institutions and organizations that have the right to conduct types of economic activity in the field of mine action and have received a certificate of compliance in accordance with the procedure established by law, its management and access to information accounting of mine action operators is determined by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine”.
International presence of UDA
UDA is a permanent member of many UN Clusters on protection, mine action, education, health care, etc.
UDA actively participates in all major mine action events in Ukraine and worldwide (meetings, round tables, exhibitions, conferences, etc.) within the framework of international organizations (UNMAS, UNDP, OSCE, GICHD, etc.) and (Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Economy, Ministry of Education and Science, State Border Service, etc.).
UDA is included to the database of the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining.
From April 2024 to April 2025, UDA was the first organization to co-chair the UN Mine Action Area of Responsibility (Mine Action AOR).
UDA actively participates in various international events dedicated to mine action in Ukraine. Since 2023, UDA has been a co-organizer of large-scale events, including the annual exhibition “SECURITY 2.0,” the conference “Military-Technical Cooperation between Ukraine and Croatia on Mechanical Clearance,” and others.
UDA Mission
Today, Ukraine is the most mined country in the world.
Humanitarian demining is a top priority for both the state and UDA
on the way to recovery.
The UDA team has been working since 2018, and our motto remains unchanged:
Let’s make Ukraine safe together!