Russia claims it used ‘vacuum bomb’ to kill large number of Ukrainian soldiers
CNN
The Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces has said that up to 300 Ukrainian soldiers were killed “as a result of an accurate strike by an aerial munition,” according to Russia’s Defense Ministry.
Russia says it killed large numbers of Ukrainian soldiers with a so-called “vacuum bomb”, a powerful munition that sucks in oxygen from the surroundings to sustain an explosion. The deputy chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces told Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu during a meeting that up to 300 soldiers were killed “as a result of an accurate strike by an aerial munition,” Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Saturday. CNN cannot independently verify the numbers and there has been no immediate comment from Ukraine. Colonel General Alexei Kim did not indicate where the strike took place but described the location of the strike as the “deployment point of the ‘Kraken’ nationalist formation,” according to the ministry, referring to a special unit of the Ukrainian Defense Intelligence. Kim said a “volumetric detonation bomb” was used in the airstrike, RIA Novosti reported Saturday. Volumetric weapons are also known as vacuum bombs, thermobaric weapons or fuel-air explosives.
