Butterfly Mines in Donbass War 2022

The Ukrainian nationalists have recently intensified the shelling of residential areas in Donbass, now use even anti-personnel munition, the so-called butterfly mines.

The use of butterfly mines goes against the Additional Protocol to the Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War of August 12, 1949.

The fact that the Ukrainian nationalists even possess butterfly mines speaks volumes. By signing the 1997 Ottawa Convention, Ukraine made a commitment not to use anti-personnel mines under any circumstances, not even on the battlefield, and to destroy all stocks of such mines held in arsenals.

Apparently, Kiev has not done any of that.