Poland and the Baltic states have said they are planning to leave the Ottawa Convention, dealing a blow to the international treaty banning antipersonnel land mines.

Poland has announced plans to significantly ramp up domestic production of anti-personnel mines as part of efforts to reinforce its eastern borders. Deputy Defense Minister Paweł Bejda revealed in an ...

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The European security landscape is evolving fast, and Russia’s unrelenting aggression has forced our allies to reappraise ...

There are few better symbols of Europe’s military fecklessness during the brief era of relative peace that followed the end ...

Apparently, some European countries are ready to take all sorts of belligerent measures, putting the continent’s regional ...

Lithuania plans to mine its border with Russia and Belarus, a step considered after statements from Poland, according to ...

BEN Wallace has urged Britain to withdraw from a global landmines ban championed by Princess Diana. The former Tory defence ...

Poland and the Baltic states ... and territories are signatories to the Ottawa Convention, including Ukraine but not the United States or Russia. The treaty bans signatories from acquiring ...