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It is just Wednesday, but this already counts as the week when Ukraine is suddenly getting a whole set of new weapons to fight Russia today.
Following Sunday's decision by the Biden administration to allow the Ukrainian use of atacms, American long range missiles to hit targets deep inside Russia, the BBC has learned that Ukraine has used British made Storm Shadow cruise missiles to hit a position in the Russian region of Kursk.
The other big and certainly attention grabbing move by Washington today has been to provide anti personnel mines to Ukraine to try to blunt continuing Russian advances.
These types of mines have been banned for almost 30 years by the vast majority of countries, more than 160.
The US and Russia are not signatories to that convention.
The US insists these mines will be non persistent in the jargon.
In other words, they'll cease to be operational within a couple of weeks and so safer to deploy.
But Mary Wareham, a director at Human Rights Watch who successfully campaigned for the UN Anti Landmine Convention in 1997, said she was horrified by the US decision.
I mean this is a shocking and devastating development for the international community working to eradicate anti personnel landmines.
So much progress has been made over the past 25 years under the framework provided by the international treaty banning landmines.
So it's just inconceivable that the US would take this step.