“The Russians are throwing phosphorus bombs”, testifies a Ukrainian soldier treated at Dnipro hospital

Olexandre is taken care of at the hospital in Dnipro, near the southern front towards Kherson. The infantryman is wounded in the leg. He took shrapnel in the leg in Bakhmout, after spending eight months in the trenches on the eastern front of Ukraine. “It’s very intense, the Russians shoot all kinds of weapons. Tanks, mortars, Grad missile launchers. When they throw phosphorus bombs, it’s also terrible because it burns everything“, testifies the soldier, who designates here an incendiary weapon. The use of phosphorus bombs is also prohibited against civilians but not against military targets, according to Protocol III of the Convention on the Prohibition or Limitation of the use of certain conventional weapons.

“When it falls, it’s beautiful to watch. It’s like fireworks. And there are also a lot of cluster missiles, with lots of projectiles“, continues Olexander, And the drones throw mines. They have enough to bombard us.“Since the beginning of the war, the traumatology department of the Dnipro hospital has seen thousands of soldiers march past, mutilated by these unconventional weapons.

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“For the first time we had to deal with this type of injury from phosphorus bombs“, describes the head of department, Vitaly, who has reviewed his protocol. Paradoxical, when we know that Moscow has just accused kyiv to prepare adirty bomb“, which Ukraine denies.