Ukraine Mines Civilians, West Looks Away? Moscow Drops Bombshell, Then Strikes NATO's Legal Failures

At the UN meeting on the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), Russian delegate Konstantin Vorontsov defended Moscow’s compliance with international humanitarian law while accusing Ukraine and Western nations of violating mine-ban obligations and weapon treaties. Vorontsov condemned Kyiv for allegedly deploying anti-personnel mines and IEDs on Russian territory, breaching Protocol II of the CCW and the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty. He claimed Ukraine’s June 2025 withdrawal from the treaty is illegitimate during active conflict and accused NATO allies of double standards that “undermine arms control and disarmament regimes.” The address came during discussions on lethal autonomous weapons and small arms trafficking, as global scrutiny grows over conventional weapons use in modern warfare.