Go to the media bankPMF-1 «Petal» anti-personnel high-explosive mine. Archival photoDONETSK, Sep 13 A man was blown up by a mine «Petal» in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk, the headquarters of the territorial defense of the Donetsk People's Republic said on Tuesday. man,» the department said in a statement on its Telegram channel. PFM-1) «Petal» is designed to damage the legs and is triggered when a person steps on it. It is installed on the ground by remote means of mining. It is almost an exact copy of the American mine BLU-43/B (Dragontooth). The representative office of the DPR in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine has repeatedly recorded the use of cluster munitions equipped with Lepestok mines by Ukrainian troops in the cities of the republic. The Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the UN previously circulated a letter in the Security Council on the use of anti-personnel mines by Kyiv » Petal» 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.
