High-explosive anti-personnel mines (PFM-1) «Lepestok» on the central street of Donetsk. File photoDONETSK, Aug 2 Three people, including a teenager, were injured in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk as a result of an explosion on the PFM-1 «Lepestok» mine, according to the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Cessation Regime fire (SCCC). «Kirovskiy district: as a result of the explosion on the PFM-1» Petal «mine, the following were injured: a teenage boy born in 2005, a boy born in 2002, a girl born in 2002,» the representative office's Telegram channel says .
Russia sent the UN Secretary General data on the use of the «Petal» mine by the Ukrainian Armed Forces stuffed mines «Petal». Ombudsman of the Donetsk People's Republic Daria Morozova called on the UN to give a legal assessment of the actions of Ukrainian troops who remotely mine the settlements of the DPR with mines of this type. It is installed on the ground by remote means of mining. A special insidiousness of a mine for civilians is that, due to its unusual shape, people who are not familiar with this mine may not recognize it as a dangerous object. The mine is almost an exact copy of the American BLU-43/B Dragontooth mine. In 2005, Ukraine ratified the Ottawa Convention, which prohibits the use, stockpiling and production of anti-personnel mines. Thus, Kyiv violates its international obligations.
