This is shocking. We are still removing mines left from ages past ...

NATO sure like building useless walls eh

Civilians end up paying the price for land mines

"client state of Belarus" ... In the last 4 yrs, I actually see a bit more of independence of Belarus from Moscow than Germany, Lithuania or Finland does from Washington DC.... Belorussian at least takes weeks or months to comply with Moscow's demands... it is always overnight for Europeans!

Militarily speaking, I don't see this being much of a deterrent either. In such a vast terrain, it would not be hard for Russia to get hold of one and reverse engineer it to disable it (presumably they will be remote controlled and disabled). But even with that, just a large unmanned machine can go in front triggering the mines and breach the line overnight. Again, due to the vast amount of land border and civilian population, it will be a very thin line. Of course, that takes the assumption that Russia had any interest of invading any land beyond Ukraine, that I would rate it as zero (unless invaded first or an total embargo on Kaliningrad!). After NATO's progress fiasco showed in Ukraine, I think from now, the industry and certain politicians just view NATO as a cash cow for the remaining of its existence and less and less expenses share of the pie will be for innovation and readiness.

So I guess the circle will go round and round again, presumably until we learn how to communicate with people different than us.

Even if it was true that Russia was going to invade them, which is not, what are landmines going to do to a modern army lmao.

A pragmatic low cost solution in light of the usa threat of forcing the european members of nato to "pay their fair share". But what prevents russia from detonating them with drones? This isn't ds9. They (presumably) aren't self replicating.