Russia's full-scale invasion may have turned Ukraine into the world's largest minefield. As of March 2025, Ukraine’s ...

The withdrawal of five European countries from a longstanding and effective international treaty prohibiting antipersonnel ...

Mines, grenades, and the infamous "petals" (PFM-1) are scattered across towns and villages. Since mines from World War II are still being discovered underground, some predict that it will take ...

Ukraine has become the most mine-contaminated country since World War II, casting a shadow over global food security, according to a study by the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change in London ...

Land mines defined combat in both World War I and World War II, and were a major part of war plans during the Cold War. But the 1997 Ottawa Treaty began to remove them from stockpiles across 163 ...

In 2022, land mines killed 1,661 people and injured 3,015, according to the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. Civilians made up 85 percent of those casualties, half of whom were children.

Washington had provided more than $300 million a year, or 40% of total international support for removing mines, according to the Landmine Monitor report in 2024.

Inside the dangerous mission to find and clear landmines in Cambodia 02:47. Siem Reap, Cambodia — On a dirt road about one hour's drive outside Siem Reap in northwestern Cambodia is a makeshift ...