Russian forces are spreading surface land mines by the thousands in Ukraine's east. The plastic weapons' petal shape allows them to be scattered from the air quickly across wide areas. Ukraine's ...
these are not buried but rather are scattered across large swaths of land. There is no reliable way to remotely track or disarm the mines. The POM-3 was never employed in combat until Russia used ...
The Russian Guard’s field engineers defused over 600 Lepestok anti-personnel land mines in the Kharkov ... kill but cripples an individual. The mine’s small size complicates its search ...
Russian forces are using banned anti-personnel mines to cover its tactical retreat in Ukraine, according to a report from Human Rights Watch. Ukrainian explosive ordnance disposal teams located ...
UNSPECIFIED, UKRAINE - JULY 31: Various land mines used by Russian forces. Ukrainian soldiers of the ... [+] 128th Brigade of the Territorial Defense pause from their duties on the southern ...
And at a time when farmers are trying to get in the field to plant, he says Russian forces are also putting mines into farm fields. “For them hunger is also a weapon, a weapon against us ...
About two million land mines planted on Ukrainian territory are ... Ukraine’s counteroffensive was facing major problems. The Russian Defense Ministry said earlier that the Ukrainian armed ...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that Kyiv started its counteroffensive against Russia too late in the war, giving Moscow ample time to plant countless land mines on Ukrainian soil.