Ukraine has stabilised the lines around Pokrovsk since the turn of the year. The Russian army, blocked at the entrance to the ...

Ukraine to follow Poland, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia as Nato looks to build a new ‘Iron Curtain' of millions of ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree to withdraw from the 1997 Ottawa Treaty, banning the production and use of indiscriminate anti-personnel mines, stressing that these explosives ...

Fenced off behind barbed wire, about 350 soldiers from 31 countries including Ukrainians work in a hangar and air-conditioned ...

Russia's full-scale invasion may have turned Ukraine into the world's largest minefield. As of March 2025, Ukraine’s ...

Ukrainian farmers are facing a dangerous situation. Their lands are heavily contaminated with mines after the conflict. Many ...

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

Finland is withdrawing from an international treaty banning land mines, putting its fear of neighboring Russia above its ...

Map showing the countries that have ratified or only signed the Ottawa convention (different shades of blue), the countries ...

If Russia plans to broaden the ground war, Ukraine may need deeper lines of defence. Landmines could prove critical.

The treaty, signed by representatives of 120 countries, was widely celebrated as a monumental achievement. That year, the ...

The SBU special force unit has proved a ruthlessly effective operator destroying a huge amount of Russian armour.