antipersonnel mine

Polishchuk told Human Rights Watch that Ukraine's forces strictly adhere to international humanitarian law and the 1997 antipersonnel mine convention.

A PFM is a scatterable antipersonnel mine, commonly called the 'butterfly mine'.

A Human Rights Watch survey this summer reported that Russian had deployed at least seven antipersonnel mine models in parts of Ukraine, including at least one fragmentation mine that had never before been reported in combat.

This antipersonnel mine was developed by the Soviet Union and deployed in its war in Afghanistan, where examples of the munition can be found to this day.

The deminers also reported finding a range of innovative mines, including a Russian “scattering mine” that deploys itself and self-destructs in 100 hours, an antipersonnel mine with laser beams as trip wires, and sinister combinations of mines such as an arrangement in which one mine is a decoy and another explodes.