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Ukraine to Withdraw from Ottowa Treaty Banning Anti-Personnel Mines

Ukraine to Withdraw from Ottowa Treaty Banning Anti-Personnel Mines

Above: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addresses the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France, on June 25. Image copyright: Frederick Florin/AFP/Getty Images

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Russia has never been party to the Ottowa 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 Ottowa 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.

Metaculus Prediction

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.


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