American media outlets have already painted the reported move by the outgoing US president as a major U-turn on the White House’s mines-related policy.
US President Joe Biden has purportedly authorized the delivery of “nonpersistent” antipersonnel land mines to Ukraine in a move that aims to boost Kiev’s defenses against advancing Russian troops, according to the .The reported decision means Biden has effectively undone his own policy given that in 2022, he reversed what he described as a “reckless” step by the Trump administration that allowed antipersonnel landmines’ wider use.In a separate development last year, Russia’s Permanent Mission to the UN sent a letter to the Security Council accusing Kiev of using scatterable PFM-1 (Lepestok) land antipersonnel mines against civilians in Donbass.
