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Ukrainian forces destroy #Russian #thermobaric #munitions #depot in Donetsk Oblast, General Staff reports

The post was accompanied by a #video of the strike near the town of #Selydove in the embattled #Pokrovsk district — an initial #explosion is followed by a spectacular series of much larger subsequent #explosions in what appears to be the detonation of material on the ground.

kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-

#RussiaInvadedUkraine #StandWithUkraine

Thermobaric explained:
bbc.co.uk/news/business-605713

The Kyiv Independent · Ukrainian forces destroy Russian thermobaric munitions depot in Donetsk Oblast, General Staff reportsBy Kateryna Hodunova

British World War I propaganda poster seeking to recruit women to the war effort, c. 1915. The first world war represented the advent of propaganda on a massive scale, as the participating countries realized the importance of public opinion and the need to keep morale high. © HULTON-DEUTSCH COLLECTION/CORBIS

Source: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, 2005

archive.org/details/newdiction

#propaganda
#WWI
#women
#munitions

Ukraine developing guided aerial bombs domestically

“We are actively working on it. I think we will achieve such success,” he said during a telethon on the air of Yedyni Novyny.

Barhylevych pointed out that Russia holds the largest stockpile of aerial bombs inherited from the Soviet Union.

Guided aerial bombs are precision-guided #munitions that have a shorter range than #missiles but are far cheaper to produce.

kyivindependent.com/ukraine-de

The Kyiv Independent · Ukraine developing guided aerial bombs domestically, Chief of Ukrainian Armed Forces General Staff saysBy Sonya Bandouil
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@palestine

Dr Mohammed Tahir, a British surgeon working at a hospital in Gaza, described finding one of the three-mm (0.12-inch) cubes made from tungsten inside a young patient he was treating, in a video published by AJ+.

British surgeon Nizam Mamode also recently testified to a United Kingdom parliamentary committee about treating children with similar wounds.

#Gaza
#children
#munitions