Lithuania on Thursday quit an international convention banning cluster bombs, citing security concerns over neighbouring Russia in a move that has drawn criticism from human rights groups.

Lithuania on Thursday (March 6, 2025) quit an international convention banning cluster bombs ... international treaty prohibiting the use of anti-personnel land mines. NATO member Lithuania ...

The five countries have been concerned about their security since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, ...

Eastern European nations are moving towards exiting the Ottawa Contention, a treaty that bans anti-personnel landmines, to deter Russia from invading.

Russia and Ukraine are not members of the convention and have both used cluster bombs in their three ... treaty prohibiting the use of anti-personnel land mines. NATO member Lithuania has said ...

The three Baltic states and Poland have proposed withdrawing from an international agreement banning landmines as the ...

Eastern European countries are eyeing an exit of the Ottawa Convention banning anti-personnel landmines so they can place lethal underground bombs along ... and the use of cluster munitions.

Poland, the three Baltic states and Finland, all of which border Russia, are "close" to an agreement on withdrawing from the ...

In 2022, Mr Garrett helped clear around 50 tonnes of explosives from areas like Irpin and Bucha, the sites of Russian ...