US EditionRussian Threat Sees Eastern Europe Bring Back Land Mines
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Since the start of Russia’s aggressive war against Ukraine in February 2022, there has hardly been a more pressing question for NATO than how to better protect its eastern flank. Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland are five of the six NATO countries that share a border with Russia and/or Belarus. Since 2022, these countries have invested heavily in better securing these borders – for example, through barbed wire fences and surveillanc…
Russian threat sees Eastern Europe bring back land mines
Five out of six countries along the border with Russia and Belarus plan to secure their borders with land mines, aiming to protect NATO's eastern flank from a possible attack. But the plan is highly controversial.
Five NATO countries that border Russia have opened up to using mines there to deter invasion. Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kęstutis Budrys says the goal is to “stop the enemy.” “We have to stop them from coming in,” Budrys told Norwegian newspaper VG. But the decision has drawn criticism in Norway, which is now the only European country bordering Russia that does not allow the use of mines.
Norway may remain the only country with a land border with Russia without mines.
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