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Ukraine is now the most mined country. It will take decades to make safe. (wapo.st)

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[–] UnverifiedAPK@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Tbf Russia's PFM-1 is based off the US' BLU-43. The difference is the US went "Oh wow, this is a really bad situation" and stopped using them half a century ago.

Double tbf: Ukraine also has 5.5 million of these mines themselves.