The US has said it will provide Ukraine with American-made antipersonnel mines to help it fend off Russia’s advances. This as officials in Kyiv dismissed warnings of a major Russian missile strike, blaming a psychological warfare operation carried out by Moscow.
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said that Kyiv would be provided with ‘non-persistent’ mines that don’t pose a long-term threat to civilians.
Ukrainian officials have argued that using more land mines could help it stop Russia’s human wave attacks in the east of the country, where much of the civilian population has already been evacuated.
Over 160 countries, including Ukraine, have signed up to a 1997 treaty banning the weapons. Land mines are criticised as indiscriminate, with the potential to pose a threat to civilians long after any conflict has ended.
The US, Russia, China, and other countries however have never agreed to a ban.
Russia has deployed anti-tank and antipersonnel mines extensively in the Ukrainian territory it has seized.
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