On his knees in a fighting trench, a lone Ukrainian soldier is carefully searching for the nearly invisible tripwire attached to an explosive device — without triggering it.
No easy task, made all the more challenging in the mucky slit filled with spent ammunition, food containers and garbage.
He’s being watched too.
But he’s not in any danger.
This is a training exercise, pulling soldiers from Ukraine’s front lines to the comparative safety of Poland, where Canadian combat engineers act as instructors, teaching how to detect and defuse land mines, booby traps and other improvised explosive devices (IEDs).
“Ukraine asked us to teach their soldiers
