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For Orthodox Easter, a bakery in Ukraine is selling bread that helps remove landmines

In Ukraine, the most land-mined country in the world, restaurants are selling bread for Orthodox Easter using wheat from recently demined farmland. Proceeds fund the clearing of more fields.

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Joanna Kakissis is a foreign correspondent based in Kyiv, Ukraine, where she reports poignant stories of a conflict that has upended millions of lives, affected global energy and food supplies and pitted NATO against Russia.
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