With continuous attacks from one side to the other within the context of the , in recent hours the latter have accused the former of using thermobaric bombs, also known as vacuum, which would be a serious war crime as they are prohibited by the .
From 1864 to 1950 as a result of the First and Second World War, in the city of Geneva (Switzerland) up to four agreements were signed that regulate what is today international human law. A series of rules that seek to protect the victims of armed conflicts and that in the case of conflicts such as the one between Russia and Ukraine it is essential to respect them, in order, among other things, not to massacre defenseless civilians.
Something that for Ukraine would be violating Russia through vacuum bombs. A weapon created at the end of the 20th century and that seeks to extract oxygen from an area to create a great explosion that drowns the living beings present, even being able to vaporize human bodies.
Russia has already used these vacuum bombs in other wars
The Ukrainian ambassador in Washington, , has been the last great personality to denounce this fact, which is considered a war crime, thus joining media such as CNN, The Guardian, or even Amnesty International. According to them, for a few days Russian troops have been witnessing TOS-1 missile launchers, capable of loading these thermobaric bombs.
And it is that in the last 40 years Russia has been demonstrating that it has this weapon in its arsenal and that is how I used it in the war of the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 80s or in the two wars in Chechnya for . In addition, in February 2020, the state agency RT broadcast a video in which vehicles could be seen carrying out military maneuvers armed with up to 24 vacuum projectiles.
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Having even the largest specimen in the world, which was tested in 2007 and dubbed the ‘Father of All Bombs’, in response to the ‘Mother of All Bombs’ that the United States devised in 2003, these bombs of vacuum have a mechanism as simple as deadly.
Being able to be used both in open and closed spaces, they are composed of two explosive charges that spread a fuel cloud that mixes with oxygen and then detonates this fuel that consumes oxygen and creates the sensation of vacuum through the explosion at high temperature. It is with this phenomenon that it is possible to extract oxygen, which leads to suffocation or incineration of humans close to the detonation.
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