According to Newsweek, images provided by the Russian Defense Ministry show that Moscow forces used “heat bombs” to target Ukrainian military sites.
Russian forces have deployed military vehicles, including the TOS-1A weapons system, which contains launchers that fire “thermal warheads.”
According to Newsweek, the system “carries 24 heat projectiles” that can cover an area of 430,000 square feet, and these projectiles create a temperature of 3,000 degrees Celsius, which melts the “steel armor”.
But this was not the first time Russian forces had used the bullets during the bombing of Lyman, the main railway center in western Sorodontsk (in the east).
Mikhail Podoliak, an adviser to the Ukrainian president, said in May that Russia was “already using the heaviest non-nuclear weapons against Ukraine” and described them as “burning people alive.”
On his Twitter account, he shared a video of the use of a Russian thermobaric weapon system in Lyman.
This Sol is the Solntsepek flame system. Some partners avoid giving the necessary weapons for fear of escalation. Intensification, really? The RF is currently using the heaviest non-nuclear weapons against و and burning people alive. Maybe it’s time to respond and give us an MLRS? pic.twitter.com/6M1NFRw6xQ
– Михайло Подоляк (@Podolyak_M) May 27, 2022
According to the British Ministry of Defense, the Russian missile system uses thermal missiles.
Russia’s Defense Ministry has approved the use of the TOS-1A weapons system in Ukraine. TOS-1A uses thermobaric missiles that produce incendiary and explosive effects.
Watch the video below for more information about this weapon and its destructive effect.
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Finnish President Saulie Ninisto said earlier this month that both sides in the Ukraine war were using heavy weapons, including Russia’s use of thermobaric bombs.
“We are supporting Ukraine with increasingly heavy weapons. On the other hand, Russia is starting to use very powerful weapons, thermobaric bombs, which are in fact weapons of mass destruction,” Ninisto said during talks on security policy. has done.”
Ukraine and NATO countries have also accused Russia of using thermobaric bombs, also known as vacuum bombs, which cause far more damage than conventional explosives.
According to a previous report in the Guardian newspaper, this thermal weapon, also known as an aerosol bomb or explosive with air fuel, is a two-stage ammunition.
The first time, it emits a very fine substance into the atmosphere, a carbon-based fuel that turns into tiny metal particles, then the second time it ignites a cloud, creating a fireball, a massive shock wave and a vacuum. Does because it absorbs everything. Oxygen around
Explosion waves can last much longer than ordinary explosives and can evaporate the human body.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Ukraine of committing genocide against Russian-speaking people in Donbas, a charge he used as an “excuse to invade the country.”
Source: Lebanon Debate
