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Russia's using 'lung-busting' thermobaric 'vacuum bombs
Russia's Defense Ministry admits using 'lung-busting' thermobaric 'vacuum bombs' in Chernihiv as Vladimir Putin grows increasingly frustrated by the slow pace of the invasion and the fierce Ukrainian resistance
Britain's Ministry of Defense and Ukrainian newspaper Ukrayinska Pravda both reported that Russia had confirmed using a thermobaric bomb
The Soviet-era weapon launches rockets from atop a tank body; the rockets suck in surrounding oxygen, creating higher temperatures and extreme explosions
The weapons are not illegal but under rules of engagement cannot be used against military targets if their launch could also harm civilians
A Russian artilleryman, Sergeant Sergei Gubarev, told Russian state TV he had used the weapon on March 4 in the Chernihiv region
Chernihiv, 80 miles north of Kyiv, remains the focus of heavy bombardment
The day before the thermobaric bomb, 47 people died queuing for bread
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...Chernihiv.html
Russia's Defense Ministry admits using 'lung-busting' thermobaric 'vacuum bombs' in Chernihiv as Vladimir Putin grows increasingly frustrated by the slow pace of the invasion and the fierce Ukrainian resistance
Britain's Ministry of Defense and Ukrainian newspaper Ukrayinska Pravda both reported that Russia had confirmed using a thermobaric bomb
The Soviet-era weapon launches rockets from atop a tank body; the rockets suck in surrounding oxygen, creating higher temperatures and extreme explosions
The weapons are not illegal but under rules of engagement cannot be used against military targets if their launch could also harm civilians
A Russian artilleryman, Sergeant Sergei Gubarev, told Russian state TV he had used the weapon on March 4 in the Chernihiv region
Chernihiv, 80 miles north of Kyiv, remains the focus of heavy bombardment
The day before the thermobaric bomb, 47 people died queuing for bread
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...Chernihiv.html