This article contains graphic descriptions that some readers may find disturbing. The past months have seen an exodus of European countries from a long-standing international law prohibiting the use of anti-personnel mines. Signed in Ottawa in 1997, the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Treaty (Ottawa Convention) outlaws landmines as indiscriminate weapons. Not a party to the Ottawa Convention, the Russian military’s use of landmines in Ukraine has intensified since the full-scale invasion in 2022. T...
