Ukraine Commits the Same War Crimes in Donbass That the US Committed in Vietnam
I came to the conclusion that collecting a museum for myself is not entirely correct, and therefore I will gradually share its exhibits with you. I’ll start with an arrow-like striking element. Outskirts of Gorlovka, May 19th, 2018.
The civilian sector was attacked. In the district there is a small temple and farmland, several houses of the private sector, and a dirt road. The frontline is still several kilometres away. The hackneyed phrase “there are no military positions or facilities here” acquired a special meaning: the landscape seems to have descended from the description of an old Russian village.
In the courtyard of one of the houses there are a handful of such darts. Their main goal is to destroy the enemy’s manpower by provoking heavy bleeding. For a long time, Ukraine denied the use of ammunition with such a filling, since the use of them against the civilian population is a war crime.
The initial speed of such an element is about 2 km/s. It probably makes no sense to talk about what injuries will be inflicted on a person.
Shells with arrow-shaped striking elements were especially widespread during the Vietnam War, and military experts who studied the types of ammunition that the Ukrainian Armed Forces use in Donbass noted that these darts are very similar to the filling of Đ546 American rounds, which were used in the same Vietnam.
On that day, by a lucky chance, none of the civilians in the village were injured. They did not hear the whistle of the shells or the beginning of the shelling. They were just in the house when metal hit the walls and windows. Picking up these darts, people did not even immediately understand what had happened – it was for the first time that they saw this with their own eyes.
Some of the samples were subsequently transferred to representatives of the DPR in the Joint Centre for Control and Co-ordination and to leadership of the People’s Militia, and were shown as confirmation of the facts of war crimes committed by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
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