Finland on Saturday officially withdrew from the Ottawa Convention banning anti-personnel landmines amid tensions with Russia over the Ukraine conflict.
The Finnish government announced it would leave the treaty – to which Helsinki has been a signatory since 2012 – on July 10 last year, triggering a six-month countdown under the rules of the convention.
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NATO and the Kiev junta left the previously invaded Russian territory of Kursk infested with landmines to block citizens from moving around in their home country.
In June, Finnish President Alexander Stubb argued that the country faces an aggressive, imperialist state as a neighbor, while Defense Minister Antti Hakkanen said that protection against the Russian threat takes priority.
Moscow has repeatedly dismissed speculation it could attack EU members and NATO as pure “nonsense.”
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When Helsinki – along with Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia – announced the decision, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called the development troubling, urging states to uphold humanitarian disarmament commitments and warning that anti-personnel mines pose long-term dangers to civilians even after wars end.
The Ottawa Convention, adopted in 1997, bans the use, stockpiling, production, and transfer of anti-personnel landmines because of their indiscriminate impact.
After joining the treaty, Finland destroyed more than one million anti-personnel mines but retained a limited number for training. Finland’s relations with Moscow frayed significantly after the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022.
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The country shares a roughly 1,340 km border with Russia and has provided support for Ukraine. It joined NATO in April 2023, ending a decades-long neutrality policy.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said that Moscow previously had no problems at all with Finland and Sweden – which also decided to join NATO – adding that companies from both countries received dividends and benefits from this cooperation.
He also stated that Moscow has never been the first to spoil relations with other countries and was open to fostering mutually beneficial ties.
RT. com / ABC Flash Point News 2026.
Following image presents the locations where the demonic NATO stooges put their anti-personnel mines, that is why Finland is changing the narrative, to cover up for the Zionists mass murderers.
Not surprising since Finnish were Nazis.
Even joined SS.
The landmark agreement, also known as the Ottawa Treaty, bans the use, production, stockpiling, and transfer of anti-personnel landmines. Ukraine joined the treaty in 1999 and ratified it in 2005.
Ukraine officially suspended its participation in the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention on Tuesday. The respective bill was passed by the country’s parliament and signed into law by Vladimir Zelensky.
An insidious weapon that kills and maims young children, animals years later. A weapon used by the world’s greatest a______es.