“It strongly resembles fireworks, a sort of rain of glitter,” explains Xavier Tytelman, a former military aviator and keen observer of the conflict in Ukraine.
Images posted on Twitter by Roman Hryshchuk, a member of the Ukrainian Parliament, show an impressive "rain of fire" on the village of Ozerne, in the Donetsk region, as verified by the group Geoconfirmed.
“We would need chemical analyzes to confirm that it is indeed incendiary ammunition, weighs the specialist.
But Russia has already used this type of weapon before, notably on the Azovstal steelworks” where thousands of Ukrainian soldiers were entrenched.
“So the suspicion is huge,” he says.
Behind the aesthetic appearance of this ammunition, hides "one of the most cruel weapons of modern warfare", according to the NGO Human Rights Watch.
White phosphorus can cause excruciating injuries.
It causes severe thermal and chemical burns, often to the bone”.
Used in civilian areas, the use of this type of weapon is a war crime.
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