Volunteers on dangerous and tedious task of cleaning up mines across Ukraine

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The war in Ukraine has sparked a global food crisis, and the country's farmers are now scrambling to salvage their crops.

But in regions that were previously occupied by Russian forces, farmers are returning to their fields to find them littered with land mines.

Along with artillery shells, and other explosives scattered across Ukraine, volunteers are sweeping through vast areas of the war-torn country, finding and safely removing unexploded ordinance.

Jeff Semple has an up-close look at their daunting and dangerous task, and how Canada is pitching in.