15 February 2025, 10:31 | Updated: 17 February 2025, 13:21

By Major General James Cowan

The Ukraine-Russia peace talks proposed this week have generated a wave of geo-political uncertainty at the Munich Security Conference, which I am attending this weekend.

Only the reckless would make predictions about the future of the conflict. But whatever the talks amount to or finally deliver, there is one unavoidable truth: the landmines in Ukraine will one day need to be removed.

About 60 miles north of Kyiv is the tiny, nondescript village of Zolotynka. East of the village is woodland that surrounds the main highway between Kyiv and the city of Chernihiv. For eight weeks in........

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