Finland’s military will initiate the acquisition of anti-personnel landmines and start training staff, conscripts and reservists to use them later this year, it said on Wednesday, after the country’s withdrawal from the Ottawa Convention that bans their usage took effect on January 10.

Finland and other European Union and NATO members bordering Russia — Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Poland — decided to leave the Ottawa treaty amid concerns over the military threat posed by Russia.

Russia has used landmines in its invasion of Ukraine, and in July accused Ukraine of doing so too, after Ukraine announced its withdrawal from the Ottawa Convention.

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