High-explosive anti-personnel mines (PFM-1) «Petal» on the central street of Donetsk. File photoDONETSK, Aug 13 A civilian was injured in the Kirovskiy district of Donetsk when he stepped on a banned anti-personnel mine PFM-1 «Lepestok», the headquarters of the territorial defense of the DPR said. «A civilian was injured in the Kirovskiy district of Donetsk. On Krasnaya Zarya Street, a man born in 1976 stepped on a prohibited anti-personnel mine PFM-1 «Petal» dropped by Ukrainian militants, the headquarters' Telegram channel said. .jpg» /> In the DPR, 40 people were injured by anti-personnel mines «Petal» The 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 mining equipment. civilians is that, due to the 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- mine 43/B (Dragontooth). The representative office of the DPR in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime has repeatedly recorded the use of cluster munitions equipped with mines «Petal» by Ukrainian troops in the cities of the republic. The Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the UN earlier distributed a letter in the Security Council about 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 is violating its international obligations.
