High-explosive anti-personnel mines (PFM-1) «Petal» in Donetsk. File photoDONETSK, Aug 10A man was wounded in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk when a PFM-1 «Lepestok» mine was triggered, the DPR defense headquarters reported. Donetsk region is located on the western outskirts of the capital of the DPR, it is the most distant part of the city from the center. Since 2014, when the DPR declared independence from Kyiv, this area, starting from the line of contact outside the city of Marinka, has been regularly shelled by Ukrainian security forces. steps on her. 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.
Ukrainian troops are armed with 90 rockets with mines «Petal» The DPR representative office in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime 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 «Lepestok» by Kyiv against the civilian population in 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.
