Ukraine on track to withdraw from Ottawa anti-personnel mines treaty, Zelenskiy decree shows

FILE PHOTO: Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy looks on at a press conference during a meeting with Polish President Andrzej Duda on Ukraine's Constitution Day, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, June, 28, 2025. REUTERS/Thomas Peter/File Photo

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KYIV (Reuters) -President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday he had signed a decree to pull Ukraine out of the Ottawa Convention banning the production and use of anti-personnel mines as a necessary step in view of Russian tactics in their 40-month-old war.