​Russia claims to have killed hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers with a so-called “vacuum bomb”. Ukraine quickly rejected this claim as nonsense, reports CNNreports News.ro.

During a meeting, the Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces informed the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Sergei Shoigu, that up to 300 servicemen were killed “as a result of an accurate hit by an aircraft munition”, he informed the Ministry of Defense on Saturday. of Russia

Andriy Yusov, a spokesman for the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, told CNN that these statements are “absolute nonsense and propaganda, just like Russian information about the killing of 1,500 Ukrainian soldiers yesterday in the Kursk and Belgorod regions.”

CNN stresses that it cannot independently verify the incident.

Belgorod would be hit by Vampire missiles.

Colonel-General Oleksiy Kim did not specify where the attack took place, but called the site of the attack “a deployment point of the Kraken nationalist formation”, the ministry reports with reference to the special unit of the Intelligence Service of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. Ukraine.

Kim Jong-un said the airstrike used a “volumetric detonation bomb,” RIA Novosti reported on Saturday.

The details of the Russian airstrike emerged during a meeting at the headquarters of the Security Service, where Shoigu heard reports from commanders about the current situation in the “special military operation zone,” as the ministry said, how Russia is waging war in Ukraine.

Also, Kim did not say when the attack was carried out, but noted that “only in the last week, as a result of the effective operation of reconnaissance and strike systems, three American Patriot complexes, the Vampire volley fire system, more than 10 foreign-made artillery systems and fuel and ammunition depots were destroyed.” , the message says.

During the meeting, Kim Jong Un also informed Shoigu that Ukraine “suffers significant losses in both equipment and manpower as a result of the use of high-precision weapons and attack drones,” the agency said.

On the other hand, in a Telegram statement, the governor of Belgorod, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said that the city was hit by rockets fired from the Vampyr missile system on Saturday during the presidential election. He stated that equipment and buildings were damaged both in Belgorod and in the surrounding villages.

Several videos with the consequences of the explosion, which were initially published on Russian channels, appeared on social networks.

What is a thermobaric weapon?

Bulk weapons are also known as vacuum bombs, thermobaric weapons, or fuel-air explosives.

The destruction caused by a thermobaric weapon is caused by the blast wave it creates, as well as the vacuum created by the air-fuel mixture drawing in oxygen to support detonation, according to the Lieber Institute for Law and War at West Point. , New York.

The force of such an explosion is sufficient to collapse buildings and tear out organs. According to the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, walls or even caves provide no protection.

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