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- Ryan Hendrickson has been working to clear heavily mined areas in Ukraine.
- The former US Special Forces engineer says the overwhelming numbers of land mines is wildly different from anything he saw in Afghanistan.
- "How do you clear all of this out?" Hendrickson asked in an online interview with a Ukrainian YouTube channel.
A decorated former US Army Special Forces engineer who cleared out improvised explosives in Afghanistan and has since been tackling threats in Ukraine says the monstrous minefields Russia is laying down are unlike anything he has ever seen.