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1 A sapper walks next to remains of a car destroyed by a Russian military strike, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in Kharkiv, Ukraine July 11, 2022.

2 In areas at a safer distance, like Mr. Hordienko’s farmland, Ukrainian mine clearers known as sappers must still survey and remove thousands of land mines and unexploded ordnance before anyone can resume a normal life.

3 "We need more sappers," he says, "we don't have enough of them".

4 Later, in their temporary base in a cottage several kilometres away, the soldiers expressed frustration about a lack of mine-clearing equipment, and a shortage of sappers - four of whom had been injured in recent weeks.

5 The action had involved "shock" troops, sappers and boat specialists, the Chinese military newspaper added.

6 “This one flew in and did not explode,” said Roman Horiak, 31, head of a group of underwater sappers for the State Emergency Service.

7 Write a new sapper article. Tell how students get to your school.

写一篇报纸文章，说说学生是怎样到达你们学校的。

8 "Of course, it slows down the movement of troops," said the commander of a nine-man sapper squad with the call sign Dill.

9 Live grenades lay in wait, to be neutralized by sappers.

10 In recent weeks, the Da Vinci Wolves have posted several videos explaining the work of sappers and drone operators, or featuring soldiers preparing for a ground assault.

11 First, the sappers launched suicide assaults against the most important buildings.

12 Ihor, who has been a sapper for four years, says he has already lost more than 10 members of his team.

13 "I don't know which country manufactured them, but they are critically important for sappers because if one steps onto an anti-personnel landmine ... the boots will save the sapper's legs," he said.

14 The Assyrian army used sappers—soldiers who dug tunnels to sap, or undermine, the foundations of the enemy’s walls so that they would fall.

15 A team of sappers led the way, looking for explosives hidden on the sandy floor.

16 In a painstakingly slow process that has come to define the speed of the Ukrainian counteroffensive, small groups of sappers on the front lines are crawling across minefields - sometimes literally on their stomachs - to detonate Russia’s defenses and clear a path for troops to advance.

17 The Ukrainian sappers first use Vallons, which look like metal detectors, to clear a path.

18 He was a sapper in the Royal Engineers, attached to the Parachute Regiment for a few days, with the specific job of clearing barricades.

19 Before the probing begins, he said, sappers must survey the area while standing, lying down and kneeling.

20 Ihor and his team of sappers know they still have a huge task ahead.

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