REUTERS/Viacheslav RatynskyiZAPORIZHZHIA REGION, Ukraine, Aug 3 (Reuters) - When they found the bodies of Russian troops at an abandoned position, something about the corpses looked wrong.
"We lose one sapper every day, either wounded or dead.
Even their own dead: "They know that our med-evac groups lift the wounded and the dead, under which they then find these explosives.
"We had cases when five or six wounded people were brought in, and most of them turned out to be sappers.
Ukraine's factories have tooled up to make equipment to help keep the sappers safer.
Persons:
Volodymyr, it's, Oleksandr, Ihor Iefymenko, Vitalii Hnidyi, Peter Graff, Hugh Lawson
Organizations:
Armed Forces, REUTERS, PM, GO, Brigade, Reuters, Thomson
Locations:
Ukraine, Donetsk region, Soviet, Kharkiv, Canadian