Published 3 December 2024 at 14.27
Foreign. The US will send banned landmines to Ukraine in the next aid package from Joe Biden, according to several US media outlets.
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Tropical landmines are banned by a 1997 UN convention that Ukraine has signed, but Russia has not.
However, Human Rights Watch has determined that both sides are using landmines in the conflict.
Landmines often lead to great civilian casualties when left on the ground after a war, and is also devastating to the soldiers that politicians send to the battlefield.
US approval of Ukraine's use of Atacms and anti-personnel mines is because it simply things are going badly for Ukraine in the war and that the Biden administration does not want the country to be faced with an outright surrender when the time comes to negotiate with Russia.
However, a de facto surrender is expected to happen shortly , then the incoming Trump administration is preparing a peace proposal in which Russia gets to keep all occupied territory.
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