Oleksiy, a 26-year-old Ukrainian soldier, is six months into a difficult recovery after losing most of his left leg to an anti-personnel mine. Despite his injuries, he says Ukraine is right to ...

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 ...

On July 18, Ukraine formally informed the United Nations that it has suspended its operation of the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty, the landmark international treaty prohibiting antipersonnel landmines. The ...

Earlier, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Finland and Estonia announced their withdrawal from the treaty. The Ottawa Convention entered into force in 1999, when 164 states, including Ukraine, joined it.

A land mine warning sign in Donetsk, east Ukraine, in 2023. Genya SAVILOV / AFP© Genya SAVILOV / AFP A Ukrainian soldier piling unexploded land mines in a hole to be destroyed in 2023.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy defiantly declared Saturday that his countrymen “will not give their land to ...

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 ...

Kiev withdraws from Mine Ban Treaty — security officials Earlier, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland announced their withdrawal from the Ottawa Treaty MOSCOW, June 30. /TASS/.

In Germany, Bundestag member Roderich Kiesewetter from the ruling Christian Democratic Union is advocating that the country withdraw from the Ottawa Convention, which bans the use of anti-personnel ...

Despite his injuries, he says Ukraine is right to withdraw from a treaty banning such weapons. Facing challenges in securing new U.S. supplies of artillery and munitions, or to recruit enough new ...

Europe Facing battlefield setbacks, Ukraine withdraws from mine ban treaty July 7, 2025 Oleksiy, a 26-year-old Ukrainian soldier, is six months into a difficult recovery after losing most of his ...