High-explosive anti-personnel mines (PFM-1) «Lepestok» on the central street of Donetsk. File photoDONETSK, Aug 6Two civilians were wounded in Donetsk when PFM-1 «Lepestok» mines went off, the DPR defense headquarters reported. PFM-1 «Lepestok» banned anti-personnel mine dropped by Ukrainian MLRS was delivered to the RTC with a wound. headquarters.
Ukrainian troops shelled Donetsk with rockets with mines «Lepestok» Earlier, an elderly woman born in 1935 in the same area of Donetsk received a similar wound, which was also reported by the headquarters. According to updated information from the mayor of Donetsk, Aleksey Kulemzin, the woman lost her foot. Anti-personnel high-explosive mine (PFM-1) «Petal» is designed to damage the legs and works when a person steps on it. 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 an almost exact copy of the American BLU-43/B (Dragontooth) mine. The DPR representative office in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC) has repeatedly recorded the use of cluster munitions equipped with mines «Lepestok» by Ukrainian troops in the cities of the republic. The Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation at the UN previously distributed a letter in the Security Council on the use of anti-personnel mines «Petal» by Kyiv against the civilian population in the Donbass. The letter was also sent to the UN Secretary General. In 2005, Ukraine ratified the Ottawa Convention, which prohibits the use, stockpiling and production of anti-personnel mines. Thus, Kyiv violates its international obligations.
15:33Special military operation in UkraineUkrainian troops shelled Donetsk twice in 25 minutes
