In a presentation of the Landmine Monitor 2023 report to the UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR), Human Rights Watch has accused Ukraine of multiple violations of the Ottawa Convention banning anti-personnel mines.
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In March 2022 right after the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion, a cell phone video apparently taken by a Russian soldier captured two “Zemledeliye” mobile mine-laying systems thought to be stationed in Kharkiv Oblast. Speaking to the Kyiv Independent nine months later, HRW Associate Director, Mark Hiznay, explained the near impossibility of keeping that figure current.