Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland are preparing to mine their borders with Russia
Finland, Estonia, Poland, Latvia and Lithuania are ready to resort to mining territories along their borders with Russia in order to deter a possible invasion. About this informs The Telegraph.
The five NATO member states previously announced their intention to withdraw from the 1997 Ottawa Convention, which bans the use of anti-personnel mines. It is expected that they will officially report this to the UN this month. Thus, by the end of 2025, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland and Finland will have the right to manufacture, stockpile and use such ammunition.
States are already developing plans for which forest and lake areas along the border with the Russian Federation could be mined in the event of a threat of an attack by Moscow on the North Atlantic Alliance. Poland, Finland and the Baltic countries have a common border with Russia and Belarus with a total length of more than 3,460 km.
“Every NATO country along that line has decided that deterring a Russian invasion requires defensive measures that would once have been unthinkable. If necessary, they will seed the peaceful pine and birch forests along their borders with millions of land mines — weapons once considered so abhorrent that most of the world tried to ban them forever.” – says the message.
