Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky recently signed a decree initiating Ukraine’s withdrawal from the Ottawa Convention banning the use of anti-personnel landmines. Signed in 1997, the Ottawa Convention prohibits the use, production, stockpiling and transfer of landmines – weapons that are buried or concealed underground and can continue to cause injury or death long after a conflict is over. More than 160 countries have signed the treaty, but the United States and Russia are not among them, writes V4NA.
