The scene in a low-lying field northwest of the battered and flood-soaked Ukrainian city of Kherson on Friday could almost be described as a ballet of bomb detection.
A team from the British-based HALO Trust, a humanitarian non-governmental organization, swept its mine detectors in precise, deliberate synchronization, left and right.
Every once in a while, a detector would scream, prompting the operator to pause and check the ground. There were some false alarms when CBC News visited the area on Friday.
The six person unit was going over what was, for them, familiar ground near the village of Yevhenika — a bucolic little hamlet of bored
