sure go buy a fancy designed tshirt of ir blinding led glasses but regular sunglasses and a common facemask work way better and infinitely more common.
iirc the center bit thats unscrewed is the detonation device. the reason they are doing it at length like this is because mines are sometimes booby trapped with something underneath them to deter or slow down removal
The "report" is issued by something called the Stanford Internet Observatory, which is not in fact a telescope on a hill, but rather an operation by the guy who, from 2015-2018, was the "Chief Security Officer" of Facebook - an ironic title, considering that this was the period of the Cambridge Analytica machination, the Rohingya genocide, and the Russian influence operation that exposed 128 million Facebook users to pro-Trump disinformation.