In July 2025, the news spread in Russian -speaking social networks that an employee of the Latvian border service died, having undermined the anti -personnel mine. Shortly before that, Latvia announced that she was leaving the Convention on the ban on this type of weapons. We checked the reliability of such publications.

“The first went: the Latvian border guard died, having blown up at the anti -personnel mine. According to Latvijas vēstnesis, the tragedy occurred on July 18 as a result of detonation of one of the anti -personnel mines established to contain the potential attack of the Russian army. Earlier, President of the Republic, Ediggs Rinkevichs, signed the Law on the withdrawal of Latvia from the Convention on the prohibition of uncontrollable anti -personnel mines, ” told July 20 in the social network X user @otdlenie. At the time of writing this analysis, his tweet was watched almost 49,000 times. The news also Received widespread on Facebook, where one of the publications Collected 179 reposts. Similar entries appeared in "Classmates" Telegram and on other platforms.

In 2025 Latvia I went out From the UN Ottav Convention, which prohibits the use, accumulate and produce anti -personnel mines. This happened back in April, when the relevant law was approved by the country's president Edgers Rinkevs. The initiator of withdrawal from the Convention was the Latvian Ministry of Defense, explaining such a need to ensure the security of the country. “We must be prepared for Russia to continue to pose a threat to the region, regardless of how the military operations in Ukraine will develop,” - reported The head of the department Andris Spruds. In parallel, Estonia, Lithuania and Poland decided to leave the Ottav Convention.

However, in accordance with text The state ceases to be a participant not immediately, but only six months after he transmits the relevant documents to the UN. Official representatives of Latvia Made This is June 27, that is, the country will be able to place anti -personnel mines on its territory no earlier than December 27. At the same time, viral publications claim that the border guard was blown up by a mine on July 18.

The authors of posts are called as a source of information Latvijas vēstnesis. This Official publication The Latvian Republic. It does not publish news, but decisions of different departments and courts, announcements of hiring in state institutions, reports on the sale of real estate owned by the state, etc. It is in Latvijas vēstnesis in the spring was published The Law on the withdrawal of Latvia from the Ottavsky Convention. There was no material that the representative of the republican border service died, having blown up on a mine in mid -July. Large Latvian media or officials also did not report this - on the contrary, the representative of the department Christine Peterson in a conversation with the publication of Re: Baltica She saidthat such an incident did not happen.

July 24, the Ministry of Defense and the Border Service of Latvia in a joint press release They called it Messages about the death of the border guard by Fake and reminded that there is no min on the border now. “We must emphasize once again: mines are not intended for placement in peacetime. After leaving the Ottav Convention, the acquisition, placement and use of any potential uncontrollable anti -personnel mines will depend on military logic, the need and priorities of the development of defense capabilities, ”the departments added.

The primary source of news who has dispersed through social networks - fast In the Telegram channel “But my Yandex Kothelek, which appeared on July 20 at 12:40 pm Moscow time. “A parody, satire on political reality. Only proven fakes, ”the channel’s description says.

The news that comes up with “But my Yandex Kid” is far from the first time diverge through the Russian -language segment of social networks under the guise of real ones. So, among such fakes, two statements were widely spread: assigned to the publicist Andrei Piontkovsky phrase The fact that only dummies of products are on the shelves of Russian stores, and supposedly words The ex-head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany Annalena Berbok that Ukraine managed to rehabilitate the swastika in the eyes of the free world.

Thus, in mid -July 2025, the Latvian border guard did not undermine the anti -personnel mine set on the border with the Russian Federation shortly after Latvia left the Convention on the ban on this type of weapons. This information first appeared in the channel that publishes fictional news.

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