President Biden has given the Pentagon the green light to ship antipersonnel land mines to Ukraine — a policy the commander in chief once called “reckless.”
“While we have provided anti-tank mines throughout the conflict, the Biden-Harris Administration will soon provide Ukraine with non-persistent antipersonnel land mines (APLs) as well,” a US official told The Post.
The official noted that the explosive devices differ from the ones Russia is using because they become “inert after a pre-set period of time (anywhere from 4 hours to 2 weeks)” and will not detonate when their battery power runs out, theoretically making them less of a long-term danger to civilians.
The shift in policy with land mines — which comes days after the Biden-Harris administration authorized Ukraine to use American-made long-range missiles to strike Russia’s Kursk region — is needed to stymie recent Russian advances against the Ukrainian front lines, according to the official.
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