In a year and a half of conflict, Ukraine has become the world’s most mined country. Unexploded ordnance has contaminated an area larger than Florida.
  • rumbleran@suppo.fi
    112·
    1 year ago

    They do exactly that in sane countries. Russia just drops them out of airplanes with zero fucks given where they land.

    • UnverifiedAPK@lemmy.ml
      6·
      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.