Biden administration approves sending anti-personnel mines to Ukraine in another major policy shift
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By Oren Liebermann and Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration has approved sending anti-personnel mines to Ukraine for the first time in another major policy shift, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin confirmed on Wednesday.
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By Oren Liebermann and Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration has approved sending anti-personnel mines to Ukraine for the first time in another major policy shift, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin confirmed on Wednesday.
President Biden has reportedly given the Pentagon the green light to ship antipersonnel land mines to Ukraine — a policy the commander in chief once called “reckless.”
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. decision to provide Ukraine with antipersonnel land mines expands the use of a weapon that the international community has long condemned because of its danger to innocent civilians.
British long-range missiles and U.S. land mines are now being used by Ukraine against Russia’s full-scale invasion. The Biden administration will allow Ukraine to use American-supplied antipersonnel land mines to help it slow Russia’s battlefield progress in the war.
Both Russia and the United States — neither of which are signatories to the U.N. Mine Ban Treaty — have been criticized for their past use of anti-personnel mines. Ukraine is a signatory of the treaty.
U.S. President Joe Biden has given the OK for Ukrainian forces to be supplied with antipersonnel mines, officials in Washington said, in the second big shift in U.S. policy in three days.
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says the Biden administration will allow Ukraine to use American-supplied antipersonnel land mines to help slow Russia’s battlefield progress in the war.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it will give Ukraine antipersonnel mines to help it slow Russia’s battlefield advances, marking the
Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it will give Ukraine antipersonnel mines to help it slow Russia’s
The Biden administration will allow Ukraine to use anti-personnel land mines to mitigate Russia’s battlefield progress, undoing a policy the president had previously set at the beginning of his term. A U.S. official confirmed the U.S.
The Biden administration has approved supplying Ukraine with American anti-personnel mines to bolster defenses against Russian attacks as Ukrainian front lines in the country’s east have buckled, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said today.
