Russian invasion of Ukraine

This is a picture from yesterday, October 16th, when a de-mining team,
supported by our Lithuanian organization Blue/Yellow, stumbled over
this mine, in the vicinity of a here unnamed township in Eastern
Ukraine.

The mine, PFM-1, known as the "butterfly", is being inserted by air
(via artillery or by air). It was used widely during the Soviet
Afghanistan conflict (about a million pcs) and caused several tens of
thousands of deaths and disabilities during that war. Especially
children, who tend to pick it up since it looks like a toy, suffered
from it.

Now, Russia is using the same mines in Ukraine, deliberately spreading
them in an around populated areas. More evidence (videos, photos,
neutralized mines) is available.

This tells you something about the way Russia perceives Ukraine, and
what measures it is willing to deploy in order to force the country
and its people to "surrender".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PFM-1_mine

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