[Keyframe]

As a Croatian, I'm really glad to hear these type of news. However, also as a Croatian, I don't quite buy the news. I'm sure great progress was made but it's never going to reach 100%; It's just the nature of these damn things in combination with our geography and where the frontlines were.

[input_sh]

It means there are no known areas that are still littered with landmines, but yes, that's not a guarantee there aren't any.

Not Croatian but Bosnian, 2030 is our target for this milestone and we have to keep de-mining ~70 square kilometres every year to be able to hit that milestone.

[stephenhuey]

I visited a friend in Sarajevo in 2014. Lovely small walkable city in a little valley, enjoyed the food and did some of the tours of old war sites inside the city and on the edge of the city. It boggled my mind then that the locals warned me not to go hiking through the pretty forest out of town because of land mines; it was hard to believe a country in Europe would have that problem in the 21st century!

[krater23]

As German, I can say, as long as not someone used mines out of glass, they will rot away in some decades. We still have some woods where you could step on glass mines....

But happy to hear the news. Some years ago as I was urban exploring the airfield in Zeljava it has hit someone nearby the field. Happily I just saw the ambulance and the police.

[pimlottc]

TIL glass mines are a thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasmine_43

How clever we are when we try to kill each other.

[spookie]

Hell you still find explosives from WW2 all over. It really is difficult.

[zabzonk]

True that. I used to work in the Netherlands, and sometimes it seemed like every other week the rail network was disrupted by a newly-discovered unexploded bomb, left over from the plastering the Allied air forces gave the Dutch railways.

[CorrectHorseBat]

WW2? We're still finding explosives from WW1 in Belgium

[lchiang]

Just few months ago, a 1,000-pound WWII bomb was found in Hong Kong. The city had been a battlefield between Japanese and Allied forces.

https://hongkongfp.com/2025/09/19/hong-kong-to-evacuate-6000...

[Keyframe]

Indeed. With landmines from 90's at least general areas are known, there's signage and if you're not being stupid by venturing way past signage it's all really safe to be around.

[nephihaha]

I agree. It is good news for Croatia but there may be some that have escaped the net.

[m_adrian]

They just found a water mine in Rovinj.