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Russia deploys "largest non-nuclear bomb" in Ukraine: Reports (www.newsweek.com)

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Newly released footage shows Russian forces striking a Ukrainian town, using what pro-Kremlin sources have claimed is one of the most potent non-nuclear weapons in the world.

On Tuesday morning, videos began circulating on Russian and Ukrainian media of a "vacuum bomb" being dropped on the town of Vovchansk in the country's northeastern Kharkiv Oblast.

Ukrainian news agency InsiderUA posted the video to its Telegram channel, citing Russian military bloggers who said that the bomb was the ODAB-9000, a three-ton glide bomb sometimes referred to as "the father of all bombs."

A thermobaric or "vacuum" bomb draws in oxygen to generate intense, high-temperature combustions. According to the International Review of the Red Cross, an international law-focused academic journal produced by the humanitarian organization, the use of thermobaric weapons in built-up, civilian areas could constitute a war crime.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's definitely skeptical. The MOAB was designed to literally collapse parts of mountains. This doesn't really look like a similar result.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If you can see buildings still standing right next to the blast like this, then it was just a glorified pipe bomb. Dont get me wrong its fucked up anyways, but it just really looks like a fairly tiny explosion.