He is a pedigree dog bought to enter shows, but Patron the Jack Russell has proved he’s made of the right stuff in a completely different field - minefields.

He’s a member of a explosives detection unit that is clearing re-taken Ukrainian territory, where retreating Russian forces planted landmines and booby-traps.

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