The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation began to test FPV-pions to discharge anti-personnel mines "Petal" (photo)

"The enemy tests FPV to reset the anti -personnel mines" Petal ". How is our exit from the Infantry Convention? More wait?" Said Sergei Flash. Meanwhile, in the comments under the Flash post, MP Marian Bezugla noted that Ukraine has already left the Convention on the ban on the use of anti -personnel mines. "We have already stopped participating in the Convention. We stopped unilaterally and removed all the obligations, made it," the deputy wrote.

Also in the comments, the contributors noted that in Ukraine they do not produce anti -personnel mines of "petals". At the same time, the fact that President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree on the withdrawal of Ukraine from the Ottawa Convention on the ban on anti -personnel mines on June 29, 2025. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine explained that the invasion of the Russian Federation has put Ukraine in "uneven situation" because Russia did not sign this document.

"From 2022, when Russia has started a full -scale invasion of the territory of our country, the mass use of such means has created an asymmetric advantage for the aggressor. Thus, Ukraine has found itself in an unequal and unjust situation that limits its right to self -defense in accordance with Article 51 of the UN Charter.

" It is noted that Ukraine is not the only one who has set a difficult choice between fulfillment of obligations under the Ottawa Convention and the effectiveness of protecting its homeland from an aggressor, which neglects all international legal norms. Armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine has already forced a number of states - Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland and Finland - to review its position and make a common political decision on leaving the Ottawa Convention.

The Ottawa Convention was adopted in Oslo on September 18, 1997 and entered into force on March 1, 1999. It provides for a ban on the use, accumulation of inventories, production and transfer of anti -personnel mines and their destruction, in particular, it is aimed at stopping the use of anti -personnel mines as one of the means of armed struggle. Ukraine signed the Convention in February 1999 in New York. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine had 6 million Mines of PFM-1.

On May 27, 2003, as a result of the framework of the framework on the elimination of anti -personnel mines in Ukraine, the last mine of the PMN type was eliminated. Among the members of the UN Security Council, which did not sign the treaty of China, Russia and the USA. Other countries that have not joined this Agreement include India, Israel, North and South Korea. We will remind that earlier it was reported that Ukraine managed to establish the production of anti-personnel mines of the GNP-50.