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That photo looks staged as they should glide and disperse rather than clump together.
Recently collected and put together for photo surely?
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But I've read (and am not proclaiming to be an expert) that once they've been 'fired' there's no turning them off. They just explode. You can pre-empt or trigger the explosion, but you can't make them safe - so there's no picking them up for a photo op.
Their specific design does not allow them to be either
safely neutralized or disarmed.That photo above may just be a reference so people know what they look like, but if the above link is true I would hope it's not being used as a 'here look what ruzzians did' (because they're doing awful shit already and don't need it to be embellished. Without knowing the source or context of the image/text it's hard to say.
CYOA
In the interest of balance, Ukraine still has over 5 million of these exact mines stockpiled. A few scattered in a photo doesn't mean a lot. That photo looks staged as they should glide and disperse rather than clump together. My understanding is that once they've been deployed they can't be picked up/used/deactivated - they can only explode. So these have likely not been armed.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2022/08/04/who-dropped-thousands-of-antipersonnel-butterfly-mines-on-donetsk/?sh=6c5aea786992 (summary: one side claims one thing, another side claims another thing).