🇺🇦 Zelensky signs decree to exit the Ottawa landmine treaty, citing Russia’s unchecked use of mines. Move aligns Ukraine with Poland & Baltics amid growing threats.

Stay sharp—parliament still needs to approve.
👇 Watch this closely.
https://bluewaterhealthyliving.com/news/world-news/ukraine-on-track-to-withdraw-from-ottawa-anti-personnel-mines-treaty-zelenskiy-decree-shows/
#Ukraine #OttawaTreaty #Landmines #Russia #Geopolitics #GBSMedia

The Parliament of #Finland approved the withdrawal from the 1997 #OttawaTreaty, which bans #landmines. Only 18 MPs out of 200 opposed.
https://yle.fi/a/74-20168711

Sovereignty does not require asserting the right to kill and amputate your own people's children. (That's the main effect of landmines.)

🇫🇮 FINLAND
🔴 Finland Withdraws from Landmine Ban Citing Russia Threat

🔸 Citing “growing threat from Russia,” Finland exits the 1997 Ottawa Treaty.
🔸 Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania & Poland have also withdrawn or plan to.
🔸 Treaty bans production, stockpiling & use of anti-personnel mines.

#Finland #Russia #Landmines #OttawaTreaty #BalticStates

Campaigners sound alarm as European nations move to exit landmine ban | Weapons technology | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/apr/27/campaigners-sound-alarm-as-european-nations-move-to-exit-landmine-ban

#EUpol #OttawaTreaty #Landmines

It's good to see Norway pushing back against the insane decision of its neighbour Finland to leave the Ottawa Convention (the anti-landmine treaty). It's the duty of all sensible people and countries to stand up for hard won gains like the Ottawa Convention, or indeed the International Criminal Court which Hungary is flouting.

https://www.politico.eu/article/norway-criticizes-finlands-decision-to-withdraw-from-landmine-treaty/

#OttawaTreaty #Landmines #Norway #Finland #Lithuania #Latvia #Estonia #Hungary #EUPol