https://www.europesays.com/2013025/ How landmines are continuing to claim lives in post-Assad Syria #AhmadJomaa #BasharAssad #Conflicts #GeneralNews #HumanRightsWatch #JalalAlMaarouf #LandMines #MiningAccidents #RichardWeir #SalahSweid #Syria #SyriaGovernment #WarAndUnrest #WorldNews

How landmines are continuing to claim lives in post-Assad Syria https://www.byteseu.com/940127/ #AhmadJomaa #BasharAssad #Conflicts #GeneralNews #HumanRightsWatch #JalalAlMaarouf #LandMines #MiningAccidents #RichardWeir #SalahSweid #Syria #SyriaGovernment #WarAndUnrest #WorldNews

https://www.europesays.com/2011253/ ‘I thought I’d died.’ How landmines are continuing to claim lives in post-Assad Syria #120986037 #article #Conflicts #GeneralNews #LandMines #MiningAccidents #Syria #WarAndUnrest #WorldNews

https://www.europesays.com/uk/8555/ EU countries’ withdrawal from anti-landmine convention sparks controversy #EU #Europe #European #EuropeanUnion #HumanRights #landmines

Nearly 250 people, including 60 children, have been killed by #landmines and other war-related explosives in #Syria. Close to 400 people have been injured.

These are the casualty figures from just the last few months – since December, when the Assad regime was overthrown.
https://mastodon.world/@panayote/114302194346499686

Moves by five NATO countries to quit a treaty banning the use of landmines have experts worried, ahead of a Geneva meeting aiming to boost efforts on ridding the world of the explosive ordnance. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/08/world/politics/countries-landmine-treaty-nato/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #nato #landmines #poland #lithuania #latvia #estonia #finland #russia

Super Rat: the record-setting rodent sniffing out landmines and saving lives.

From @CNN: "Rats don’t always have the best reputations, but one named Ronin with a super sense of smell is working to change that."

https://flip.it/oyPvly

uurrghhh....

https://news.sky.com/story/growing-calls-for-uk-to-withdraw-from-treaty-banning-landmines-13341742

Decisions, decisions. Certainly more decisions to come on UK and European defence.
Landmines are a starter issue. Defensive-only and cheap to build, but so nasty that most decent countries officially banned anti-personnel mines.
Thinking now about the young people who'll either volunteer or be conscripted to serve as our deterrent/defence, and the embarrassing gap while the US withdraws, I'd like them to have enough tools for the job.
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#landmines #UKpol
https://news.sky.com/story/growing-calls-for-uk-to-withdraw-from-treaty-banning-landmines-13341742

https://www.europesays.com/1968734/ Croatia’s demining experts hope to clear country of landmines by 2026 #croatia #CroatianInteriorMinistry #DavorLaura #hrvatska #landmines #vijesti #WarInCroatia

Norway criticises Finland’s move to quit a land mine treaty.

Norway will not withdraw from the international Ottawa convention banning anti-personnel mines like Finland did.

“If we start weakening our commitment, it makes it easier for warring factions around the world to use these weapons again, because it reduces the stigma,” Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide said Wednesday.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20250402-norway-criticises-finlands-move-to-quit-a-land-mine-treaty?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

Finland becomes the latest country in Eastern Europe (following Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia) to exit the Ottawa Convention banning antipersonnel landmines. Poland has previously announced they will mine their border with Russia and Belarus.

#Russia #Landmines

https://www.politico.eu/article/finland-will-exit-landmine-treaty-spend-3-percent-of-gdp-on-defense/

ISIS Adopts Nocturnal Strikes and Landmines Following Somali Defeats #Somalia #WestAfrica #adopts #defeats #ISIS #Landmines #Nocturnal #Somali #strikes 
https://tinyurl.com/2c9xor4j

Poland is ready to resume the production of anti-personnel mines, after Warsaw joined the Baltic states this week in announcing a plan to withdraw from a treaty that bans their use. Quitting the 1997 Ottawa Convention, which has been ratified or acceded to by more than 160 nations, will allow the countries to start stockpiling and using anti-personnel mines again, part of their response to what they say is a rising threat from Russia.
#Poland #landmines #Russia #Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoZ4sRlSSWo

https://www.europesays.com/1928370/ Poland eyes 1 million landmines for borders with Belarus, Russia #Aktualności #BorderSecurity #CirculatedDefenseNews #DefenseNews #DnDnr #europe #landmines #OttawaTreaty #poland #polska #Russia

#Finland will withdraw from the #Ottawa Treaty in the near future.

This move allows the country to reintroduce anti-personnel #landmines into the country's #defense strategy.

NATO members Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia plan to withdraw from the Ottawa convention banning antipersonnel landmines due to the military threat from their neighbor Russia. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/19/world/politics/poland-baltic-landmine-convention/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #nato #poland #lithuania #latvia #estonia #ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar #landmines

Poland and Baltic nations to pull out of landmines accord.

Poland and the Baltic nations of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia are withdrawing from the Ottawa convention banning anti-personnel mines, the four countries, which all share a border with Russia, said in a joint statement.

Quitting the 1997 treaty will allow the countries to start stockpiling landmines again.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20250318-poland-and-baltic-nations-to-pull-out-of-landmines-accord?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward