US will allow Ukraine to use American antipersonnel land mines against Russian forces

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) -- The U.S. defense chief says the Biden administration will allow Ukraine to use American-supplied antipersonnel land mines to help it slow Russia's battlefield progress in the war. It is Washington's second major policy shift in a week after its decision to let Ukraine strike targets on Russian soil with U.S.-made missiles. The war, which reached its 1,000-day milestone on Tuesday, has largely been going Russia's way in recent months. Russia's bigger army is slowly pushing Ukraine's outnumbered army backward in the eastern Donetsk region, while Ukrainian civilians have repeatedly been clobbered by Russian drones and missiles often fired from inside Russia. The U.S. and some other Western embassies in Kyiv stayed closed Wednesday after a threat of a major Russian aerial attack.

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