Problems of evaluating the efficiency of local area restoration in Ukraine through the prism of humanitarian demining

The presented study is devoted to highlighting the role of humanitarian demining in the process of restoring local territories of Ukraine affected by military operations, with an emphasis on the problems of assessing the effectiveness of this process. The study purpose was to substantiate the role of humanitarian demining in the process of evaluating the efficiency of the restoration of local territories of Ukraine in the context of war. The theoretical basis was the provisions of economic theory, regional economics, scientific works of domestic and foreign scholars on the restoration of local territories. The article also uses an additional method of regional economics – analysis and synthesis (in the theoretical justification of humanitarian demining before planning the restoration of territories). The information base of the study was statistical data and legal acts of Ukraine, European and Ukrainian information and analytical reviews, scientific and methodical publications. The author presents humanitarian demining as the first stage of territorial restoration, based on the results of modern scientific research and analytical materials. It concludes impossibility to restore the local territories of Ukraine without the successful implementation of all stages of humanitarian demining and security. Before planning the further life of the territories, the author stresses the crucial importance of successful implementation of all stages of humanitarian demining. The author examines the local dimension of evaluating the effectiveness of territorial development using the example of the Trostianets urban territorial community in the Sumy region as well as identifies the main social prerequisites for its restoration.