The United States will soon provide antipersonnel mines to Ukraine, a U.S. official confirmed late Tuesday, in a move that followed Ukraine’s first deployment of long-range U.S.-supplied ballistic missiles in an attack on Russia.

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    1 month ago

    Oh goody! Let us sit and watch as they seed the soil with death in waiting for uninvolved civilians for the next 50 years.

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      1 month ago

      From the article…

      “The official also pointed to the function of the mines, which they said require a battery for operation and will not detonate once the battery runs out after a period of a few hours to a few weeks.”

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        1 month ago

        That’s brilliant engineering but also…I wonder how common some kind of reverse-dud would be?

        “Oh cool it’s probably inert because that was MONTHS ag–”