According to journalists, phosphorus bombs were used during Russian attacks on an uninhabited area near the disputed city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine. As reporters reported, at around 4:45 p.m. on Tuesday afternoon, two shells were fired five minutes apart across a road in an uninhabited area near the southern exit of the village of Chasiv Yar, about 15 kilometers from Bakhmut.
Explosions released tiny glowing spheres of phosphorus that slowly fell vertically, igniting the football-field-sized vegetation on either side of the road.
The road connects Chasiv Yar and Bakhmut. The city, which has been fiercely contested for months, has been the scene of the longest and bloodiest battle since the start of Russia’s offensive war against Ukraine in February 2022.
Use against civilians prohibited
AFP journalists were initially unable to determine whether the missiles were aimed at a Ukrainian armed forces position or camp. A green truck with the Ukrainian army sign was parked near the burned area. The nearest residential buildings are about 200 meters from the point where the phosphorus bombs fell.
One of the Geneva Conventions prohibits the use of phosphorus bombs against civilians, but not against military targets. Kiev accuses Moscow of repeatedly using the weapons against the Ukrainian civilian population since the beginning of the war. The Russian military denies this.
Source: Krone
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