Ukraine looks to withdraw from a major international treaty on anti-personnel landmines to bolster its defense on the ...

On June 29, President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree to withdraw from the Ottawa Convention banning anti-personnel mines, ...

On July 15, the Verkhovna Rada approved a government-submitted draft law officially withdrawing Ukraine from the Ottawa ...

The withdrawal of five European countries from a longstanding and effective international treaty prohibiting antipersonnel ...

This was announced by MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak on Telegram , according to Ukrinform. Legislative initiative No. 0329 was supp ...

Five countries plan to revive the use of a weapon prohibited by treaty for more than a quarter of a century, hoping to ...

The 1997 International Mine Ban Treaty prohibits the manufacture and use of antipersonnel mines. Ukraine is one of 164 nations that signed the treaty. The United States and Russia have not signed it.

Kyiv may seek to employ mines to slow Russia's counterattacks, as well as to ensure that the current and future Russian ...

Ukraine's statement and move to withdraw came just hours after Ukrainian authorities said Russia had launched 477 drones and ... better known as the Ottawa Convention or Mine Ban Treaty, ...

Over the past 26 years since the Mine Ban Treaty entered into force, compliance with its core provisions has generally been impressive. This is due in large part to the strong commitment of States ...

A Dutch soldier lassos a land mine before removing it from the open road during exercise Allied Spirit at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center in Hohenfels, Germany, Jan. 15, 2015. (U.S. Army Spc.

Ukraine looks to withdraw from a major international treaty on anti-personnel landmines to bolster its defense on the battlefield, where its troops are trying to hold off Russia's intensifying ...