As a Croatian, I'm really glad to hear these type of news. However, also as a Croatian, I don't quite buy the news. I'm sure great progress was made but it's never going to reach 100%; It's just the nature of these damn things in combination with our geography and where the frontlines were.

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input_sh 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It means there are no known areas that are still littered with landmines, but yes, that's not a guarantee there aren't any.

Not Croatian but Bosnian, 2030 is our target for this milestone and we have to keep de-mining ~70 square kilometres every year to be able to hit that milestone.

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spookie 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Hell you still find explosives from WW2 all over. It really is difficult.

	▲	CorrectHorseBat 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		WW2? We're still finding explosives from WW1 in Belgium
	▲	zabzonk 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		True that. I used to work in the Netherlands, and sometimes it seemed like every other week the rail network was disrupted by a newly-discovered unexploded bomb, left over from the plastering the Allied air forces gave the Dutch railways.
	▲	Keyframe 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Indeed. With landmines from 90's at least general areas are known, there's signage and if you're not being stupid by venturing way past signage it's all really safe to be around.

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krater23 23 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

As German, I can say, as long as not someone used mines out of glass, they will rot away in some decades. We still have some woods where you could step on glass mines....

But happy to hear the news. Some years ago as I was urban exploring the airfield in Zeljava it has hit someone nearby the field. Happily I just saw the ambulance and the police.

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nephihaha 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I agree. It is good news for Croatia but there may be some that have escaped the net.