The TOS 1, a cruel thermobaric weapon, blasted Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine last night

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The TOS 1 is an incredibly scary weapon. It affects a radius of 1.5 kms around the blast site, and removes all of the air from this sphere, choking people to death. Criticized by human rights organizations for causing in an extremely painful death. It's the most destructive non nuclear weapon that Russia has.

Pretty sure the guy you hear is using a string of the most vile Slavic cuss words he knows.
 

I don't think from a quick search that Putin has actually used it in a populated area yet. There are videos of TOS 1s headed towards the Ukraine but if he does detonate them, there's no avoiding outright WWIII.
 
AnnieA said:
I don't think from a quick search that Putin has actually used it in a populated area yet. There are videos of TOS 1s headed towards the Ukraine but if he does detonate them, there's no avoiding outright WWIII.
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Apparently, one was detonated in Cherkasy Oblast last night. But I don't know if that's a populated/residential area or not.
I'm gonna look into it when I have time. (busy day today)
 
AnnieA said:
Only getting youtube hits saying this; no news outlets are reporting an TOS 1 detonation though they have been deployed to the area.

https://news.yahoo.com/russian-army-deploys-tos-1-135336380.html


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I saw it on a YouTube channel called Artur Rehi. Artur is a former soldier who lives in Estonia. He streams live updates 2 or 3 times daily.

It was someone in the chat who posted about the TOS 1 going off in Cherkasy, and then Artur looked it up and found the video I posted.

I watch Artur when he streams because it's so hard to get reliable updates. That said, the guy in the chat might have been mistaken. Maybe the video is from someplace else, maybe it was a test or practice; hard to say.

Best we can do to confirm is watch the news and other YouTubers who are keeping up with this horrible event.
 
@Murrmurr :(

The Ukraine ambassador to the US, Oksana Markarova, said Russia used the thermobaric bomb today. She refers to it as a vacuum bomb.

https://www.metro.us/ukraines-ambassador-to-u-s/

WASHINGTON, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Ukraine's ambassador to the United States appealed to members of the U.S. Congress for more assistance on Monday as her country resists a "brutal war" from Russia, saying Russia had used a vacuum bomb on Monday in its invasion of Ukraine.

"They used the vacuum bomb today, which is actually prohibited by the Geneva convention," Ambassador Oksana Markarova said after a meeting with lawmakers. "

A vacuum bomb uses oxygen from the surrounding air to generate a high-temperature explosion, typically producing a blast wave of a significantly longer duration than that of a conventional explosive.
 
AnnieA said:
@Murrmurr :(

The Ukraine ambassador to the US, Oksana Markarova, said Russia used the thermobaric bomb today. She refers to it as a vacuum bomb.

https://www.metro.us/ukraines-ambassador-to-u-s/

WASHINGTON, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Ukraine's ambassador to the United States appealed to members of the U.S. Congress for more assistance on Monday as her country resists a "brutal war" from Russia, saying Russia had used a vacuum bomb on Monday in its invasion of Ukraine.

"They used the vacuum bomb today, which is actually prohibited by the Geneva convention," Ambassador Oksana Markarova said after a meeting with lawmakers. "

A vacuum bomb uses oxygen from the surrounding air to generate a high-temperature explosion, typically producing a blast wave of a significantly longer duration than that of a conventional explosive.
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Well I'm relieved it wasn't Saturday night, or any night...I imagined children, moms and grandparents asleep in their beds.

And their president urged everyone to take shelter many hours before Russia used that hideous thing. I'm wondering now if Putin will be charged with a war crime.
 
Ukraine's President Vlodymyr Zelensky has declared Russia 'a terrorist state' following a rocket attack in front of a civilian public administration building in Kharkiv which destroyed the road outside and blew the windows out of the building itself on Tuesday morning.
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Zelensky, speaking in a video posted on Facebook, said the attack in the central square of Kharkiv was 'an open, undisguised terror' attack and warned Russian President Vladimir Putin that 'no one will forgive. No one will forget'.

Footage from inside the the civilian public administration building in Kharkiv on Tuesday showed it was heavily damaged, with ceilings collapsing and rubble strewn around.

Zelensky has already accused Putin of war crimes after Moscow's forces launched what were believed to be cluster and vacuum bomb attacks in an attempt to turn the tide of a conflict that they have so-far been losing.

In a late night address on Monday directed at Russia, Zelensky said there would 'definitely be an international tribunal' for what he said was a 'violation of all conventions' and added that 'no one in the world will forgive you for killing peaceful Ukrainian people.' Prosecutors at The Hague have said they intend to open a probe 'as soon as possible'.

Zelensky spoke after what appeared to be a cluster bomb attack on the city of Kharkiv on Monday which killed at least 11 people and wounded scores more, and after Ukraine's ambassador to the US accused Putin's forces of using a banned thermobaric bomb on the capital of Kyiv overnight.

It came as Russia's invasion of Ukraine - which met with heavy defeat in its initial plan to seize key targets and infrastructure in precision strikes - entered a new phase, with the aim seemingly to surround and besiege cities such as Kharkiv, Kyiv, Mariupol, Sumy and Kherson which have so-far put up fierce resistance - and bomb them into submission using indiscriminate weapons in echoes of tactics Russia used against rebel forces in Syria while fighting alongside dictator Bashar al-Assad.

Fears that Kyiv will be hard-hit have been growing and reached new heights on Tuesday as satellite images revealed a column of Russian vehicles heading towards the capital is actually 40 miles long, as opposed to the 4 miles that were reported on Monday.

The most-advanced units in the column are now just 15 miles from the city, having been significantly slowed by Ukrainian resistance but never-the-less inching closer day by day. Russia's plan appears to be using the heavy armour to encircle and shell the city, before troops move in for street-to-street fighting.

A taste of what was to come struck Kharkiv on Monday when bombs rained down on the most Russia-friendly city in Ukraine – which sits 25 miles from the border and is home to 1.5million people – in a bid to break its will to resist.

The hail of bombs, shells and rockets which began falling at lunchtime left at least 11 dead, including three children, with homes and even a school reduced to rubble.
A military source said that videos of the onslaught showed 'cluster' munitions - which are illegal under international law - had been used.

'The BM-21 Grad is a multiple launch rocket system used for "area denial", dropping cluster bombs on a concentrated area,' the expert said. 'It's mainly used on enemy troops before an offensive. Used against civilians, it's not only a war crime, but has only one purpose – to spread terror and alarm among the civilian population.'

Later on Monday, Ukraine's ambassador to the U.S. claimed that Russia used a devastating vacuum bomb on Ukraine.

Oksana Markarova, speaking after briefing members of the U.S. congress, said: 'They used the vacuum bomb today, which is actually prohibited by the Geneva convention. The devastation that Russia is trying to inflict on Ukraine is large.'

The vacuum bombs, which are also known as thermobaric weapons, can vaporise bodies and crush internal organs. They use oxygen from the surrounding air to generate a high-temperature explosion, typically producing a blast wave of a significantly longer duration than that of a conventional explosive.

They are among the most powerful non-nuclear weapons ever developed.



https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...st-state-following-rocket-attack-Kharkiv.html

 
I think during the cold war the US was testing a fuel-air bomb ie their version in which there is a huge explosion and fireball which sucks the oxygen out of the air along with the concussion and fire/heat wave. It would be horrible to even close unprepared ie with adequate cover
 
hollydolly said:
Ukraine's President Vlodymyr Zelensky has declared Russia 'a terrorist state' following a rocket attack in front of a civilian public administration building in Kharkiv which destroyed the road outside and blew the windows out of the building itself on Tuesday morning.
54793703-10561485-The_blast_blew_debris_across_the_square_outside_the_administrati-m-23_1646126227234.jpg


54793671-10561485-image-a-13_1646125292893.jpg

Zelensky, speaking in a video posted on Facebook, said the attack in the central square of Kharkiv was 'an open, undisguised terror' attack and warned Russian President Vladimir Putin that 'no one will forgive. No one will forget'.

Footage from inside the the civilian public administration building in Kharkiv on Tuesday showed it was heavily damaged, with ceilings collapsing and rubble strewn around.

Zelensky has already accused Putin of war crimes after Moscow's forces launched what were believed to be cluster and vacuum bomb attacks in an attempt to turn the tide of a conflict that they have so-far been losing.

In a late night address on Monday directed at Russia, Zelensky said there would 'definitely be an international tribunal' for what he said was a 'violation of all conventions' and added that 'no one in the world will forgive you for killing peaceful Ukrainian people.' Prosecutors at The Hague have said they intend to open a probe 'as soon as possible'.

Zelensky spoke after what appeared to be a cluster bomb attack on the city of Kharkiv on Monday which killed at least 11 people and wounded scores more, and after Ukraine's ambassador to the US accused Putin's forces of using a banned thermobaric bomb on the capital of Kyiv overnight.

It came as Russia's invasion of Ukraine - which met with heavy defeat in its initial plan to seize key targets and infrastructure in precision strikes - entered a new phase, with the aim seemingly to surround and besiege cities such as Kharkiv, Kyiv, Mariupol, Sumy and Kherson which have so-far put up fierce resistance - and bomb them into submission using indiscriminate weapons in echoes of tactics Russia used against rebel forces in Syria while fighting alongside dictator Bashar al-Assad.

Fears that Kyiv will be hard-hit have been growing and reached new heights on Tuesday as satellite images revealed a column of Russian vehicles heading towards the capital is actually 40 miles long, as opposed to the 4 miles that were reported on Monday.

The most-advanced units in the column are now just 15 miles from the city, having been significantly slowed by Ukrainian resistance but never-the-less inching closer day by day. Russia's plan appears to be using the heavy armour to encircle and shell the city, before troops move in for street-to-street fighting.

A taste of what was to come struck Kharkiv on Monday when bombs rained down on the most Russia-friendly city in Ukraine – which sits 25 miles from the border and is home to 1.5million people – in a bid to break its will to resist.

The hail of bombs, shells and rockets which began falling at lunchtime left at least 11 dead, including three children, with homes and even a school reduced to rubble.
A military source said that videos of the onslaught showed 'cluster' munitions - which are illegal under international law - had been used.

'The BM-21 Grad is a multiple launch rocket system used for "area denial", dropping cluster bombs on a concentrated area,' the expert said. 'It's mainly used on enemy troops before an offensive. Used against civilians, it's not only a war crime, but has only one purpose – to spread terror and alarm among the civilian population.'

Later on Monday, Ukraine's ambassador to the U.S. claimed that Russia used a devastating vacuum bomb on Ukraine.

Oksana Markarova, speaking after briefing members of the U.S. congress, said: 'They used the vacuum bomb today, which is actually prohibited by the Geneva convention. The devastation that Russia is trying to inflict on Ukraine is large.'

The vacuum bombs, which are also known as thermobaric weapons, can vaporise bodies and crush internal organs. They use oxygen from the surrounding air to generate a high-temperature explosion, typically producing a blast wave of a significantly longer duration than that of a conventional explosive.

They are among the most powerful non-nuclear weapons ever developed.



https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...st-state-following-rocket-attack-Kharkiv.html
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Unconscionable.

Here's Bill Browder, CEO of Hermitage Capital, architect of the Magnitsky Act, and a man who knows Putin very well, talking about how financial sanctions will work if used correctly. He proposed these sanctions to British parliament and from what I understand, a few days ago Boris Johnson and parliament agreed to impose them. (17 minute video, worth every minute)

 
From the above Video...''Putin even convicted a dead man''.. a man he had killed in the first place..

My goodness.. everybody needs to watch this video..^^^^
 

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