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Poland plans to place anti-personnel mines along its borders with Russia and Belarus as part of the Eastern Shield program, Deputy Defense Minister Paweł Bejda announced.
His st…

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Baltic Defense Ministers Support Their Countries’ Withdrawal from Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Treaty

18 March, 2025 M14 anti-personnel mines. Photo from open sources

Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Poland have announced plans to withdraw from the Ottawa Convention, which bans anti-personnel mines.
The decision, endorsed by the defense ministers of t…

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Poland Considers Withdrawing from Anti-Personnel Mine Bans

7 March, 2025 Russian anti-personnel mines POM-3 “Medallion”. March 2022. Photo: NGO “Association of Sappers of Ukraine”

Poland plans to withdraw from the treaties banning anti-personnel mines and cluster munitions.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk voiced …

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British Army Will Purchase Anti-Tank Mines For 1 Million Pounds

22 February, 2025 A soldier from the 23rd Parachute Engineer Regiment of the British Army. Photo credits: MoD UK

The United Kingdom Ministry of Defense will purchase GLADIUS anti-aircraft mines to enhance its anti-tank capabilities.
Information about…

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Ukrainian Troops Use Terminator Drone for Remote Mining

6 February, 2025 The Terminator/Volya-E drone. Source: Khortytsia unit.

The soldiers of the 113th Separate Brigade of the Territorial Defense use a mining drone based on the Volya-E unmanned ground platform.
This was reported by the press service of …

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Lithuania Considers Exiting Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Treaty

14 January, 2025 MON-50, Kharkiv region, November 2022. Photo credits: National Guard of Ukraine

Lithuania has begun considering the possibility of withdrawing from the 1997 Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transf…

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Ukraine Develops Mine with PTM-1L Warhead

9 January, 2025 PTM-1L mine. Source: GrandpaRoy2.

The Ukrainian military-industrial complex has developed a shaped charge mine with a PTM-1L warhead.
The relevant photos were published by the columnist GrandpaRoy2 on his X account.
It is reported tha…