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Cluster Bombs, ‘Butterfly’ Mines, Phosphorus Munitions: Prohibited Weapons Used by Ukraine
Cluster Bombs, ‘Butterfly’ Mines, Phosphorus Munitions: Prohibited Weapons Used by Ukraine
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Geneva will host a conference of the parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) from 30 August to 2 September. In anticipation of this gathering... 30.08.2022, Sputnik International
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The Russian Armed Forces use high-precision weapons to attack military facilities, whereas the Armed Forces of Ukraine routinely bomb civilians in Donbass. As such, the Ukrainian Army has shown that it will not shy away from using weapons prohibited by international agreements, including cluster munitions. Read our investigation into these and other prohibited weapons used by the Kiev government.Cluster BombsA cluster bomb is a weapon that opens in mid-air and scatters large quantities of smaller bombs over a wide area. These munitions are incredibly lethal.Since March 2022, Ukraine’s Armed Forces have regularly shelled the Donbass region with this type of weapon. Here are a few examples:On 14 March, Ukraine’s Armed Forces fired Tochka-U missiles into the center of Donetsk. Although the missile was shot down on approach, the falling debris killed 20 people and injured another 36.The above video shows the moment Ukrainian forces hit central Donetsk with a Tochka-U missile on 14 March 2022On 8 April they fired a Tochka-U missile at the railway station in Kramatorsk, which is located in Kiev-controlled territory. As a result of this provocation, the purpose of which was to blame Russian forces, at least 30 civilians, including children, were killed and no fewer than 100 people sustained injuries of varying severity.The above footage shows the aftermath of a Ukrainian Tochka-U missile strike on a railway station in Kramatorsk on 8 AprilOn 21 and 22 May, Ukrainian nationalists fired cluster bombs at the village of Belozerka in the Kherson region. Five civilians were killed and another 10 were wounded.Scenes from the village of Belozerka in the Kherson region, which was attacked by the Ukrainian military using cluster bombs on 21 and 22 May 2022Ukraine also shelled Russian territory with cluster munitions. On the night of 3 July, Ukrainian forces fired three Tochka-U rockets at Belgorod. Russian air defense forces destroyed them in mid-air, but the wreckage of one missile fell on a residential building. Five people were killed, including a child.The above video shows residential buildings in Belgorod, Russia after Ukrainian Tochka-U missiles hit the city on 3 July 2022On 7 August Ukrainian formations attacked the territory surrounding Zaporozhye nuclear power plant with a 220mm Uragan MLRS cluster missile.Furthermore, Ukrainian security forces also use 9M27K3 cluster rockets from the Uragan MLRS to remotely mine territories of the Donetsk People's Republic with “Butterfly” PFM-1 mines. This is another type of prohibited weaponry used by the Kiev regime.‘Butterfly’ MinesThe Donetsk People's Republic's authorities records cases of civilians being wounded as a result of triggered “Butterfly” PFM-1 mines every day. About 40 grams of high explosives cripple those who step on the mine, tearing the lower part of the leg off.WARNING: The GRAPHIC video tells the story of a 15-year-old from Donetsk who suffered severe injuries from a Ukrainian “Butterfly” PFM-1 mineThese mines have so far injured more than 50 civilians, including two children. One person died of his wounds in hospital.“The ‘butterfly’ is a living testament to the sadistic, inhuman nature of the Kiev regime, a symbol of its real attitude towards people in the east and south-east of the country,” Vasily Nebenzia, Russia's permanent representative to the UN, stressed on 24 August as he illustrated with a model how easy it is to conceal the weapon.The diplomat called on UN members to condemn “the Kiev regime for using these inhumane methods of warfare”.The above video shows activists staging a protest in front of the US Embassy in Moscow in support of the victims killed in the Donetsk People's Republic by the 'Butterfly' mines In August, protest rallies were held near the embassies of the US, the United Kingdom, France, and Latvia to draw the attention of western diplomats and the public to the crimes of Ukrainian nationalists in Donbass. The protesters posted flyers with pictures of these mines near the embassies.Activists placed images of 'Butterfly' mines on pavements near the French embassy in Moscow during a demonstration in AugustOn 18 July 1997, under the International Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction, participating states undertook not only not to use, but to eliminate their stockpiles of anti-personnel mines. In 2005, Ukraine ratified the convention, but Kiev has not complied with its international obligations.As early as March, Azov fighters indiscriminately planted about 10,000 “butterfly” mines in residential buildings in the central streets of Mariupol, DPR authorities said. Shelling of the republic with cluster munitions containing these mines began in April and continues today. On 10 August, the DPR government reported that Ukraine’s Armed Forces had approximately 90 rockets of this type, each capable of carrying 320 mines.French Mines That Can't Be Disarmed“Butterfly” mines are not the only prohibited weapons used by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. On 14 August, Russian military service personnel found more than 50 French-made HPD F2 anti-tank mines at positions left by units of the Ukrainian 72nd Separate Mechanized Brigade south of Artemovsk.According to Russia's Ministry of Defense, these mines "cannot be retrieved or deactivated" once they have been placed in the armed position. Their use is in direct contravention of Protocol II ("On Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices") to the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, which was ratified in New York on 10 October of that year.RT correspondent Igor Zhdanov explains how “Butterfly” mines operateUse of PhosphorusSince the beginning of the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia's Ministry of Defense has repeatedly reported the use of phosphorus-filled munitions by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. In one example, they were used en masse against the Russian Army in February in the suburbs of Kiev near the Gostomel airport. On 19 March, the Ukrainian Army also used banned artillery shells with phosphorus warheads to strike a crossing of the Severskyi Donets River.Expanding BulletsAnother prohibited type of weapon used by Kiev are expanding bullets. In contrast to conventional bullets, these bullets have soft heads which explode on impact, opening up like a flower and causing maximum injury.Sniper rifles loaded with expanding cartridges manufactured by the US company Hornady Manufacturing were found in April at the positions occupied by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Mariupol.In the above video, a DPR fighter shows a Ukrainian 7.62-caliber Ukrop UAR-10 sniperIn March, the DPR's military also found a 7.62-caliber Ukrop UAR-10 sniper rifle in Mariinka - a weapon that has been designed to fire expanding bullets.The video of a Russian troop demonstrating prohibited ammunition used by Ukrainians in DonbassExpanding bullets were banned at the first Hague Conference more than 120 years ago, in 1899.Torture of POWsThe Ukrainian military regularly violates the provisions of the Geneva Convention in its treatment of prisoners of war. At the end of March, nationalists published footage of the massacre of Russian soldiers taken prisoner in Kharkov.WARNING: The above video contains disturbing scenes of Russian captives who were tortured by Ukrainian troopsIn early April, footage of Russian military personnel being executed in the Kiev region also appeared on the internet. The video showed one of the soldiers being finished off with several shots. Another of those killed had his hands tied behind his back, which proves that he surrendered and posed no threat.On 3 August, Russia's Deputy Minister of Defense Alexander Fomin announced at a briefing for foreign military attachés the results of a survey of Russian soldiers who had returned from Kiev’s captivity. The survey found that 81 percent of the service personnel were subjected to beatings and physical violence. More than half of those captured were forcibly recruited to shoot propaganda videos, 46 percent did not receive necessary medical assistance, and 79 percent of servicemen could not contact their families.‘Chemical Terrorism’On 20 August, Moscow accused Kiev of the targeted use of chemical weapons. It was reported that Ukraine’s Armed Forces used an organic poison of artificial origin, botulinum toxin type B, against Russian troops. On 31 July, soldiers who were performing tasks in the area of Vasilievka, Zaporozhye, were taken to a military hospital with signs of severe poisoning and after tests, it was discovered that they had this poison in their bodies.
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Ukrainian forces hit central Donetsk with Tochka-U missile at 11:40am on 14 March.
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Ukrainian forces hit central Donetsk with a Tochka-U missile at 11:40am on 14 March 2022. It was shot down mid-flight by the air defense forces, but even the fragments caused huge and irreparable damage. As a result of the strike, 20 people were killed and more than 35 were injured. Universitetskaya Street is one of the main street in Donetsk. There are no military facilities nearby.
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Ukrainian Armed Forces strike Kramatorsk railway station with Tochka-U tactical missile on 8 April.
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On 8 April, Ukrainian Armed Forces fired a Tochka-U missile at the railway station in Kramatorsk, which is located in Kiev-controlled territory. The strike was carried out by the missile division of the Ukrainian armed forces from Dobropol’e which is a region 45km south-west of the city. As a result of this provocation - which was carried out so that Russians could take the blame - at least 30 civilians, including children, were killed and no fewer than 100 people received injuries of varying severity.
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Ukrainian nationalists fired cluster bombs at Belozerka village in Kherson Region on 21 and 22 May.
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On 21 to 22 May, Ukrainian nationalists fired cluster bombs at the village of Belozerka in the Kherson Region. The shelling claimed two lives, including that of a 14-year-old. At least 10 people were injured and 10 homes were damaged.
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The Ukrainian Armed Forces launched attack by Tochka-U ballistic missiles with cluster munitions at the residential areas of Belgorod on 3 July.
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On the night of 3 July, Ukrainian forces fired three Tochka-U rockets at Belgorod. Russian air defense forces destroyed the missiles in mid-air, but the wreckage of one of the missiles fell on a residential building. Five people were killed, including a child.
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15-year-old Vladik stepped on a PFM-1 “Butterfly” mine in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk.
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Doctors did everything possible to save the boy's leg. The chief doctor at the children's traumatology department in Donetsk, together with other doctors, was able to perform soft tissue plastic surgery and restore part of the bone, but the boy will remain disabled.
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Activists stage protest in front of the US Embassy in Moscow
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Activists stage protest in front of the US Embassy in Moscow
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Images of PFM-1 “Butterfly” mines were put up at the French Embassy in Moscow
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About a dozen leaflets depicting PFM-1 “Butterfly” anti-personnel mines appeared in front of the entrance to the French Embassy. The images of the mines have a QR code leading to the website Petalsinblood.com. Via the QR code, you can see photos of civilians injured by the actions of Ukrainian troops and “Butterfly” mines. Earlier, images of the "Butterflies" were put up at the US Embassy in Moscow.
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The Ukrainian Armed Forces used the forbidden D31 anti-tank mine in Donbass.
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D31 anti-tank mines are made in Germany. One such mine was found in the Artemovsk area. It is an analogue of the French EMP F2, the use of which, the Russian Defense Ministry says, violates the Geneva Convention.
Such mines are equipped with a magnetic sensor and do not detonate from direct contact, but from approaching metal. Some experts have expressed concern that when the sensitivity is turned up to maximum, they can explode due to a mine detector. Deminers say that when working with this mine, they have to take off their uniforms and remove everything metal to prevent the mine from detonating.
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Ukrainian servicemen do not observe any conventions, they do not care about international law when using so-called expanding bullets.
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DPR fighters found a rifle that belonged to a killed enemy sniper with the said bullets. These cartridges are also called “the colors of death”: when hitting a person, the bullet opens up and leaves no chance for the target to survive. Such ammunition is also internationally banned for use in hostilities. This further adds to Kiev's war crimes record.
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The Russian military found prohibited ammunition at Ukrainian positions.
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In particular, Ukrainian sniper rifles loaded with expanding bullets fell into the hands of the Russian military. Expanding ammunition is banned all over the world, but Ukrainian forces actively use it. Such bullets leave practically no chance of survival, shredding everything inside.
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While Russia provides medical aid to Ukrainian prisoners, the Ukrainian Armed Forces shoot Russians in the legs and film soldiers being beaten to death.
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This video, presumably from the Kharkov region, shows Ukrainian troops torturing Russian soldiers. To begin with, they were all shot in the legs, and once they were on the ground, the humiliation and beatings continued.
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Cluster Bombs, ‘Butterfly’ Mines, Phosphorus Munitions: Prohibited Weapons Used by Ukraine
04:00 GMT 30.08.2022 (Updated: 08:11 GMT 30.08.2022) Geneva will host a conference of the parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) from 30 August to 2 September. In anticipation of this gathering, Sputnik assembled facts about the Ukrainian Army’s use of prohibited weapons.
The Russian Armed Forces use high-precision weapons to attack military facilities, whereas the Armed Forces of Ukraine routinely bomb civilians in Donbass. As such, the Ukrainian Army has shown that it will not shy away from using weapons prohibited by international agreements, including cluster munitions. Read our investigation into these and other prohibited weapons used by the Kiev government.
A cluster bomb is a weapon that opens in mid-air and scatters large quantities of smaller bombs over a wide area. These munitions are incredibly lethal.
Since March 2022, Ukraine’s Armed Forces have regularly shelled the Donbass region with this type of weapon. Here are a few examples:
On 14 March, Ukraine’s Armed Forces fired Tochka-U missiles into the center of Donetsk. Although the missile was shot down on approach, the falling debris killed 20 people and injured another 36.
The above video shows the moment Ukrainian forces hit central Donetsk with a Tochka-U missile on 14 March 2022
On 8 April they fired a Tochka-U missile at the railway station in Kramatorsk, which is located in Kiev-controlled territory. As a result of this provocation, the purpose of which was to blame Russian forces, at least 30 civilians, including children, were killed and no fewer than 100 people sustained injuries of varying severity.
The above footage shows the aftermath of a Ukrainian Tochka-U missile strike on a railway station in Kramatorsk on 8 April
On 21 and 22 May, Ukrainian nationalists fired cluster bombs at the village of Belozerka in the Kherson region. Five civilians were killed and another 10 were wounded.
Scenes from the village of Belozerka in the Kherson region, which was attacked by the Ukrainian military using cluster bombs on 21 and 22 May 2022
Ukraine also shelled Russian territory with cluster munitions. On the night of 3 July, Ukrainian forces fired three Tochka-U rockets at Belgorod. Russian air defense forces destroyed them in mid-air, but the wreckage of one missile fell on a residential building. Five people were killed, including a child.
The above video shows residential buildings in Belgorod, Russia after Ukrainian Tochka-U missiles hit the city on 3 July 2022
On 7 August Ukrainian formations attacked the territory surrounding Zaporozhye nuclear power plant with a 220mm Uragan MLRS cluster missile.
Furthermore, Ukrainian security forces also use 9M27K3 cluster rockets from the Uragan MLRS to remotely mine territories of the Donetsk People's Republic with “Butterfly” PFM-1 mines. This is another type of prohibited weaponry used by the Kiev regime.
The Donetsk People's Republic's authorities records cases of civilians being wounded as a result of triggered “Butterfly” PFM-1 mines every day. About 40 grams of high explosives cripple those who step on the mine, tearing the lower part of the leg off.
WARNING: The GRAPHIC video tells the story of a 15-year-old from Donetsk who suffered severe injuries from a Ukrainian “Butterfly” PFM-1 mine
These mines have so far injured more than 50 civilians, including two children. One person died of his wounds in hospital.
“The ‘butterfly’ is a living testament to the sadistic, inhuman nature of the Kiev regime, a symbol of its real attitude towards people in the east and south-east of the country,” Vasily Nebenzia, Russia's permanent representative to the UN, stressed on 24 August as he illustrated with a model how easy it is to conceal the weapon.
The diplomat called on UN members to condemn “the Kiev regime for using these inhumane methods of warfare”.
The above video shows activists staging a protest in front of the US Embassy in Moscow in support of the victims killed in the Donetsk People's Republic by the 'Butterfly' mines
In August, protest rallies were held near the embassies of the US, the United Kingdom, France, and Latvia to draw the attention of western diplomats and the public to the crimes of Ukrainian nationalists in Donbass. The protesters posted flyers with pictures of these mines near the embassies.
Activists placed images of 'Butterfly' mines on pavements near the French embassy in Moscow during a demonstration in August
On 18 July 1997, under the International Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction, participating states undertook not only not to use, but to eliminate their stockpiles of anti-personnel mines. In 2005, Ukraine ratified the convention, but Kiev has not complied with its international obligations.
As early as March, Azov fighters indiscriminately planted about 10,000 “butterfly” mines in residential buildings in the central streets of Mariupol, DPR authorities said. Shelling of the republic with cluster munitions containing these mines began in April and continues today. On 10 August, the DPR government reported that Ukraine’s Armed Forces had approximately 90 rockets of this type, each capable of carrying 320 mines.
French Mines That Can't Be Disarmed
“Butterfly” mines are not the only prohibited weapons used by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. On 14 August, Russian military service personnel found more than 50 French-made HPD F2 anti-tank mines at positions left by units of the Ukrainian 72nd Separate Mechanized Brigade south of Artemovsk.
According to Russia's Ministry of Defense, these mines "cannot be retrieved or deactivated" once they have been placed in the armed position. Their use is in direct contravention of Protocol II ("On Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices") to the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, which was ratified in New York on 10 October of that year.
RT correspondent Igor Zhdanov explains how “Butterfly” mines operate
Since the beginning of the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia's Ministry of Defense has repeatedly reported the use of phosphorus-filled munitions by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. In one example, they were used en masse against the Russian Army in February in the suburbs of Kiev near the Gostomel airport. On 19 March, the Ukrainian Army also used banned artillery shells with phosphorus warheads to strike a crossing of the Severskyi Donets River.
Another prohibited type of weapon used by Kiev are expanding bullets. In contrast to conventional bullets, these bullets have soft heads which explode on impact, opening up like a flower and causing maximum injury.
Sniper rifles loaded with expanding cartridges manufactured by the US company Hornady Manufacturing were found in April at the positions occupied by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Mariupol.
In the above video, a DPR fighter shows a Ukrainian 7.62-caliber Ukrop UAR-10 sniper
In March, the DPR's military also found a 7.62-caliber Ukrop UAR-10 sniper rifle in Mariinka - a weapon that has been designed to fire expanding bullets.
The video of a Russian troop demonstrating prohibited ammunition used by Ukrainians in Donbass
Expanding bullets were banned at the first Hague Conference more than 120 years ago, in 1899.
The Ukrainian military regularly violates the provisions of the Geneva Convention in its treatment of prisoners of war. At the end of March, nationalists published footage of the massacre of Russian soldiers taken prisoner in Kharkov.
WARNING: The above video contains disturbing scenes of Russian captives who were tortured by Ukrainian troops
In early April, footage of Russian military personnel being executed in the Kiev region also appeared on the internet. The video showed one of the soldiers being finished off with several shots. Another of those killed had his hands tied behind his back, which proves that he surrendered and posed no threat.
On 3 August, Russia's Deputy Minister of Defense Alexander Fomin announced at a briefing for foreign military attachés the results of a survey of Russian soldiers who had returned from Kiev’s captivity. The survey found that 81 percent of the service personnel were subjected to beatings and physical violence. More than half of those captured were forcibly recruited to shoot propaganda videos, 46 percent did not receive necessary medical assistance, and 79 percent of servicemen could not contact their families.
On 20 August, Moscow accused Kiev of the targeted use of chemical weapons. It was reported that Ukraine’s Armed Forces used an organic poison of artificial origin, botulinum toxin type B, against Russian troops. On 31 July, soldiers who were performing tasks in the area of Vasilievka, Zaporozhye, were taken to a military hospital with signs of severe poisoning and after tests, it was discovered that they had this poison in their bodies.
