Bellingcat.com
July 2025
Masked, Armed and Forceful: Finding Patterns in Los Angeles Immigration Raids
Since early June, the streets of Los Angeles have borne witness to frequent and aggressive immigration raids that have seen people suspected of being undocumented migrants detained
This is a public place, we don’t need a warrant.”
Ukraine’s Contaminated Land: Clearing Landmines With Rakes, Tractors and Drones
In a field near the small town of Bezymenne in southern Ukraine, Viktoria Shynkar carefully picks out a narrow path through the overgrown grass in front of her
When we come to Brussels (to prepare Ukraine’s future EU membership), they show us an infographic saying we have 42 million hectares. But the reality, unfortunately, is 24 million,
Ukraine has 42 million hectares (103 million acres) of agricultural land. On paper, we can cultivate 32 million hectares. But usable, uncontaminated land not occupied by Russia — (we have) only 24 million hectares,
There were lots of explosions under that machine,
It’s not an industrial process yet.”
We are able to innovate and bring technology such as satellite imagery, drone imagery, all helping us just to drill down to identify where those pockets of concentration of landmines and explosive ordnance are.”
There’s a lot of contamination … and farmers can’t work, can’t grow crops,
Not once have I regretted [taking on the work], not at all,
Soldiers have the saying that you can pass through one place normally five times, and blow up on the sixth time. Even professionals blow up, so what about us? We are just an agriculture company,
Every year, they promise ‘tomorrow, tomorrow, we will clear all the fields’,