Russia Drops 3 Vacuum Bombs In Ukraine
Kyiv, March 1: Russia has dropped three vacuum bombs in Ukraine’s Okhtyrka, a senior Ukraine official said on Tuesday.
Emine Dzheppar, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, tweeted that the bombs fell on Sumska region. “This bomb sucks in oxygen from surrounding air to generate a high-temperature explosion and is capable of vaporizing human bodies. Nobody will escape justice for using weapons prohibited by the Geneva convention”.
Earlier, Ukrainian ambassador to the US, Oksana Markarova, said: “They used a vacuum bomb which is actually prohibited by the Geneva convention. The devastation that Russia is trying to inflict on Ukraine is large.
“But Ukrainians will resist, we are defending our home, we do not have any other option. We will not get tired, we will not stop, we will not surrender”.
According to The Independent, the bomb, also known as a thermobaric weapon or aerosol bomb, draws oxygen from the atmosphere to create a bigger and more devastating explosion.
More than 70 Ukrainian soldiers were killed after the Russian artillery hit a military base in Okhtyrka.
Earlier, Dmytro Zhyvytskyy, head of the region, had posted photographs on Telegram of the charred shell of a four-story building and rescuers searching through the rubble.
Several Russian soldiers and some local residents were also killed during the fighting on Sunday, he said in a Facebook post.
