write their key clock was click. Let me show you guys
what 100 landmines look like in a field in eastern
Ukraine. The number. Not sure. American green beret
veteran Ryan Hendrickson is doing the dirty there
dangerous work of clearing up the deadly explosives
that Russian troops left behind For those of us who
have never done it. What's it like to approach a mine
and diffuse it It's a healthy intimidation, which i
good because I I want to have that healthy fear of the
explosives. He developed that healthy fear as a special
forces engineer defusing mines and I E.D.S earning a
silver star do during his eight tours of duty in
Afghanistan. I was finding I E.D.S that were placed by
some brilliant bomb tacticians with the taliban and so
technically I learned from the one of those I E D.S
nearly took his life. He stepped on an I E.D. In
Afghanistan. How bad were injur My boot was at a 90
degree angle to my leg. So it looked like an L.I went
into the limb salvage program at Brooke Army Medical
center technically had my leg reattached. 12 years
later he's trying to spare farmers in Ukraine their
limbs lives and livelihoods. There's the farm tractor
and there's the mind right there and in documenting his
deeds becoming a social media sensation. The yellow
flies, they love americans. Peo ask me why I do what
I do. This is his farm over here. The Russians, t
don't, they don't hold a candle to the taliban. Not
when it comes to explosives, bu they put a lot of them
out there, yep, it's the it's a game of numbers.
Ukrainian officials estimate mines now endanger 100,000
miles of their land after being left behind by Putin's
army every time Ukrainian forces retake Russian
occupied towns, villages and fields. Most of the mines
that are in the area are defensive countermeasures t
potential Ukrainian assault. As the Russians get pushed
back, civilians start to come back to their homes and
they want to rebuild. Winters here are brutal, so
they're trying to rebuild as quick as they can so they
can last the winter. They're trying to get back out to
their fields. The civilian casualty rate is
skyrocketing right now. This is not a high tech, heavy
protection de mining operation, relies on his trusty
knife for probing and the detector to avoid a fatal
wrong step. I hate that sound. I dream about this sound
this spring decompressing, forg me for asking this,
what are you doing it for the thrill of it I mean I do
like the adrenaline rush, but I know every mind I pull
out of the ground is a limb or a life that I saved the
farmers right here. They're fin able to make it to
their tractor. I believe your your life is kind of like
a, it's kind of like a story, your life, like a story
and the beginning chapter and the end chapter have
already been written when you're born when you die.
What happens in the middle, That's up to you. And my
dad told me one time he said those middle pages of your
book, are they going to be worth reading in the end
You'd rather have it be a long story a novel than a
short story Yeah, but it's not up to me. I'm a firm
believer. You don't control when you die, you control
whether you're in Ukraine walking around minefiel
Yeah, soaked in sweat and getting torn up by flies.
Honestly believe that if it's your time to go, it
doesn't matter if you're in Ukraine walking around
minefields or you're sleeping in your bed back in
florida, it's your time to go. So why not help people
while you're here This can go away now. It's awesome.
It's a good day with Ukraine right now on the offens
If they're able to push back the Russians, that means
more territory with minds that need to be cleared
before people can safely be their chance. And Jason
yesterday we talked about Ukraine beginning its counter
offensive in Kherson any gains there. Well, since we
don't have independent verification. But Ukraine's
presidential office, reports of the garland tough
battles that they say are taking place in practically
all the areas surrounding Carson which again is the
largest city under Russian control. They say that
Ukraine's forces have destroyed Russian ammunition de
and command posts and this could prove critical all the
large bridges in the area that cross the knee pro river.
So that would mean the Russians haven't got a way to
resupply their troops. And intelligence is saying that
Russian units appear to be undermanned and reliant on
these tenuous supply line.