Valeria Ponomareva, 23, a deminer with the HALO Trust NGO, wakes alongside a field that has been mined, outside the village of Snigurivka, Mykolaiv region on June 4, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. According to the Ukraine Ministry of the Interior almost a quarter of Ukrainian territory is contaminated by mines. In Snigurivka village had been occupied and mined by the Russian army, elsewhere Ukrainian troops have also left a trail of mines in their wake. (Photo by Genya SAVILOV / AFP)