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

A Colorado hiker discovered a forgotten land mine while trekking through a forest near an old U.S. Army training facility used during World War II, authorities said Tuesday. The hiker, who was ...

Ukraine also has its own national mine action standards, developed from its robust experience of clearing ordnance from World War II and the 2014 conflict in the Donbas.

Since the start of the largest war in Europe since World War II, land mines and other unexploded ordnance have killed or maimed more than 1,100 civilians, U.S. officials said.

The type of land mines that the U.S. military plans to give the Ukrainians are “not persistent,” meaning they can be set when to ... the war in Ukraine is much closer to World War II, ...

Finland’s parliament has voted overwhelmingly to pull out of a major international treaty on land mines as the Nordic country ...

Shown in this May 17, 2017, Mel Brooks served as an Army combat engineer in Europe during World War II. (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP File Photo) The 1104th's role was crucial.

The Biden administration will provide $89 million to help Kyiv clear land mines that now litter huge swaths of Ukraine after Russia’s February invasion, according to a senior State Department ...

Land mines can indiscriminately kill and maim noncombatants, years or even decades after the cessation of hostilities. In 2022, land mines killed 1,661 people and injured 3,015 , according to the ...