Ukraine Raps Russia For Using Banned Vacuum Bombs Oil Depot

The Ukrainian broadcast network Ukrinform has reported that Russia used banned fuel-air bombs to destroy an oil depot that provides fuel for hospitals, emergency power generators, and food processors.

Photo Insert: A thermobaric weapon or vacuum bomb uses oxygen from the surrounding air to generate a high-temperature explosion and is supposedly a widely banned cluster munition.

Russian warplanes dropped the prohibited bombs on the Okhtyrka oil depot in the Sumy region that burned the facility on Feb. 28, 2022, Okhtyrka Mayor Pavlo Kuzmenko posted on Facebook, Ukrinform reported.

"Again, the enemy is waging a vile war. A fuel-air bomb was dropped on an oil depot, oil tanks were blown up," Kuzmenko said in a video commentary.

Ukraine has officially filed a lawsuit against the Russian Federation at the UN International Court of Justice in The Hague, accusing Russian President Vladimir Putin of targeting civilian facilities, residential buildings, kindergartens, schools, and even churches.

As this developed, Ukrinform also reported that a Russian warplane was downed in Mariupol, Donetsk Region. Mariupol Mayor Vadym Boichenko said that as of 7 a.m., Feb. 28, 2022, the city of Mariupol was under Ukrainian control.

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