Posted on Apr 25, 2022
See how Kharkiv's bomb squad neutralizes cluster bombs in Ukraine
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When the bomb squad arrives here, it is peaceful. The trees have new leaves; the fields are green.
One resident comes out of his house and shows NPR reporters a handful of shrapnel. When the bombs explode, he says, they fly through the windows.
When the bomb squad arrives here, it is peaceful. The trees have new leaves; the fields are green.
One resident comes out of his house and shows NPR reporters a handful of shrapnel. When the bombs explode, he says, they fly through the windows.
See how Kharkiv's bomb squad neutralizes cluster bombs in Ukraine
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Cluster bombs, not good, not good at all. These Russians are barbarians and they should be liquidated. Soon
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."He's on the verge of tears. "I cannot understand how a brother fights a brother," he says.
He walks away without giving his name, but his neighbor Yuri Yes'Kov explains that this little village not far from the Russian border in northeastern Ukraine has been shelled incessantly since March.
The night before, Yes'Kov says, a Russian rocket flew overhead, dropping bomblets all over the fields.
"One of them exploded today," he says.
Kharkiv EOD technicians wire the blasting cap to the firing line in preparation for detonating the first mines.
Nickolai Hammar/NPR
What he is describing bears the hallmarks of cluster munitions, bombs that scatter over a wide area and blow up either on a timer or when something or someone goes over them.
They are banned internationally because they maim or kill indiscriminately, but human rights groups say the Russian military has been dropping them over Ukraine. Back in March, Human Rights Watch documented the use of cluster munitions in Kharkiv, just south of Bilashi. In a statement, Steve Goose, the arms director at Human Rights Watch, said that using cluster bombs in a populated area showed "callous disregard for people's lives."...
..."He's on the verge of tears. "I cannot understand how a brother fights a brother," he says.
He walks away without giving his name, but his neighbor Yuri Yes'Kov explains that this little village not far from the Russian border in northeastern Ukraine has been shelled incessantly since March.
The night before, Yes'Kov says, a Russian rocket flew overhead, dropping bomblets all over the fields.
"One of them exploded today," he says.
Kharkiv EOD technicians wire the blasting cap to the firing line in preparation for detonating the first mines.
Nickolai Hammar/NPR
What he is describing bears the hallmarks of cluster munitions, bombs that scatter over a wide area and blow up either on a timer or when something or someone goes over them.
They are banned internationally because they maim or kill indiscriminately, but human rights groups say the Russian military has been dropping them over Ukraine. Back in March, Human Rights Watch documented the use of cluster munitions in Kharkiv, just south of Bilashi. In a statement, Steve Goose, the arms director at Human Rights Watch, said that using cluster bombs in a populated area showed "callous disregard for people's lives."...
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