For example, US allies Ukraine and Finland have recently signaled they might withdraw from the treaty out of military necessity.

src (2014)

They say it’s a matter of necessity. And it seems withdrawal from the treaty is an option.

/edit: Another source from Wikipedia:

Russian forces have widely utilized antipersonnel mines since their full invasion of Ukraine commenced on February 24, 2022.

The Monitor also reports the use of antipersonnel mines by Ukrainian government forces in and around the city of Izium in 2022 when the city was under Russian control. Ukraine is bound by the Mine Ban Treaty.

They’ve already been using them.

Is there a source for this other than the FDP? I don’t believe anything from them anymore after their planned destruction of government while lying to the public, claiming the opposite. After that, anything they say feels like “are they lying again just to damage others again?”.

Mapping them is useful as documented potential targets, but the act of doing so, in a mixture of secrecy and obviousness pushes uncertainty into the EU as well. Russia loves to destabilize EU countries.

The cutoff follows OMV’s announcement that it would stop paying for Gazprom gas to its Austrian arm to offset a 230 million-euro ($242 million) arbitration award it won over an earlier cutoff of gas to its German subsidiary.