Moscow's forces have been accused of using banned anti-personnel mines in Ukraine, with Human Rights Watch calling on the international community to condemn Russian use of the weapon.
and scale down their military operations around the Ukrainian capital, said Russian Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin on Tuesday.
This would aim to:"Increase mutual trust and create the necessary conditions for further negotiations and achieving the ultimate goal of agreeing and signing an agreement," Fomin told reporters. "A decision was made to radically, by a large margin, reduce military activity in the Kyiv and Chernihiv directions," he said.in the suburbs of Kyiv over the next few days.
"Despite Russian statements indicating an intended reduction of military activity around Chernihiv, significant Russian shelling and missile strikes have continued," the MOD tweeted on Thursday. "Russian forces continue to hold positions to the east and west of Kyiv despite the withdrawal of a limited number of units.Stock image of a land mine. A viral video shows people driving cautiously on what appears to be a road covered in land mines in Borodyanka, Ukraine.
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