The increase in human resources among the occupiers and their crucial role in ongoing assault and offensive operations have compelled Western partners to reconsider their stance on supplying Ukraine with anti-personnel mines.
This was stated by military-political analyst Oleksandr Kovalenko from the "Information Resistance" group during a broadcast on "Pramyi".
According to the expert, the issue lies in the fact that Ukraine is a signatory and ratifier of the Ottawa Convention, which prohibits the use of pressure-activated anti-personnel mines. However, these mines could potentially save numerous fronts from losing control over territories and halt the invasion that is already underway, which is expected to intensify by 2025.
Oleksandr Kovalenko pointed out that Russia, on the other hand, has not signed the Ottawa Convention and therefore actively employs pressure-activated anti-personnel mines.
"The United States is also not a signatory or ratifier of the Ottawa Convention, and currently, they are supplying us with a category of mines that do not fall under this convention. They are indeed effective and functional, but the majority of the mines are of the pressure type."
Interestingly, during the 1990s, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine was the fifth country in the world in terms of the number of pressure-activated anti-personnel mines in its arsenal," added Oleksandr Kovalenko.
