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Originally Posted by Cube Inmate

Given that Ukraine is between 3 and 4x the size of Florida, and that Russia has occupied about 1/5 of that territory for most of the war, I'd be skeptical of that claim.

The whole area is F-ed:

With an immense arsenal of mines at their disposal, the Russians have landmined Ukrainian territory at an unprecedented rate, making it one of the largest minefields in the world. It's estimated that approximately 170,000 square kilometers are now covered with anti-tank or anti-personnel landmines, which is about the size of Florida, or almost six times the surface area of Belgium. However, not all of them were laid by the Russians. "The Ukrainians [also] laid a lot of them before the war, especially in the Donbas," an area where the two warring parties have been fighting since 2014, said a source from the French military.

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/internatio...6031533_4.html

According to Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, the Russian war in Ukraine has created a minefield of 250,000 square kilometers in size in his country. "It's currently the largest minefield in the world," Shmyhal told South Korea's Yonhap news agency in an interview published on January 8. The mined area, according to Shmyhal, is equivalent to more than 40 percent of Ukraine's total land area. "It's not only making it difficult for people to travel, but also causing major disruptions in farming, which is one of our main industries," he said.

https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-larg.../32214163.html

It looks like the information is coming from the Ukrainians, so could be exaggerated. However, there are still a lot of mines there, probably still more than anywhere else in the world.