Russia has never been party to the Ottawa Convention banning anti-personnel mines and the nation has cynically used these weapons to inflict death and destruction upon Ukraine. Ukraine needs to permit their use so that it can better defend itself.
The trend of a number of Eastern European and Baltic countries withdrawing from the Ottawa Convention is a troubling one, undoing decades of progress on protecting civilians from the horrors of landmines. These weapons do not discriminate between civilians and combatants and can stay active years after a conflict is over.
There's a 50% chance there will be a bilateral ceasefire or peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine by March 2026, according to the Metaculus prediction community.