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 ...

Oleksiy, a 26-year-old Ukrainian soldier, is six months into a difficult recovery after losing most of his left leg to an ...

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

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

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On June 29, President Volodymyr Zelensky said he had signed a decree proposing Ukraine withdraw from the Mine Ban Treaty. This measure will now be considered by Ukraine’s parliament.

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.

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

Poland’s upper house, the Senate voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to approve legislation that would see the country withdraw ...

A banner hanging on the Broken Chair sculpture outside the United Nations in Geneva calls on Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland to stay in the Mine Ban Treaty and not withdraw from it ...

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 ...