Ukraine News: Ukraine is probably using long-range US missiles in an attack on Russia for the first time

US President Joe Biden approves a report by the Washington Post according to the supply of anti-personnel mines to Ukraine. This means he is moving away from his previous position. The newspaper cites two people familiar with the matter. The reason for the change of opinion in the White House is the steady advance of Russian troops in Donbass. According to the Pentagon, the delivery of these mines is an effective means of slowing the advance of Russian units.

However, the use of these mines, also known as anti-personnel mines, is limited to the east of Ukraine. In addition, special mines should be delivered that self-destruct after a certain period of time or whose battery charge is limited in time. According to the newspaper’s report, Ukrainian military officials have already agreed not to plant the mines in densely populated areas.

The Russian military has laid dense minefields on the edge of the occupied territories in Ukraine, thereby derailing a Ukrainian offensive.
The use of mines is internationally banned. The so-called Ottawa Convention prohibits the use, production and transfer of these insidious weapons, which, even long after hostilities, find their victims primarily among the civilian population in the respective regions. The convention was signed and ratified by 164 states, but not by Russia and the USA. Ukraine ratified the paper in 2005.

Biden recently also gave approval for long-range American weapons against targets on Russian territory, which, according to Moscow, have now also been used against the Russian border region of Bryansk. The Kremlin interpreted this as involving the USA in the war.