HelsinkiFinland will order about 1 million anti-personnel mines.
Mines maim civilians long after wars end, and Finland has left the Ottawa treaty banning them.
Production of a tripwire tube mine and a pressure-activated step mine is due to start in 2028, Col. Riku Mikkonen said.
Finland signs the contract soon, and the army may later buy cluster-type mines.
How each outlet framed it
- The War Zone
- ties the mine reintroduction to Finland's Ottawa withdrawal, effective January 10, and to the eastern-flank states (Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia) that followed
Sources: The War Zone