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By Mark Stone, US correspondentThe decision to supply Ukraine with a tranche of landmines is indicative of a few things. The type of mines being supplied indicates the type of battle now being fought.It's an infantry war. Russia is deploying waves of soldiers, regardless of casualty rates: men on the battlefield, boots literally on the ground in large numbers, including now 10,000 North Korean soldiers.
The long frontline in the east of Ukraine has inched westward as Russia has made incremental gains with a seemingly endless supply of manpower .Anti-personnel landmines are the controversial solution to slow that advance. Bluntly, they can kill and injure large numbers of troops on the battlefield.Arms control groups are dismayed by the announcement, given the legacy of risk to civilians.
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