Ukraine accuses Russia of using phosphorus bombs, which are banned in war

A police officer from Ukraine in the Lugansk region (east) accused this Sunday of bombing his town with phosphorous bombs, while an attack in the nearby Dontesk region caused 30 injuries in a monastery.

According Oleksi Biloshytskypolice chief of Popasnaa city located a hundred kilometers west of LuganskRussian forces used phosphorous bombs in your municipality.

“It’s what the Nazis called a ‘burning onion,’ that’s what the ‘Russians’ [combinación de “rusos” y “fascistas”] are releasing in our cities. Unspeakable suffering and fires”he indicated on Facebook.

That information was impossible to verify immediately.

Further south, in the region of Donteskthe Sviatogurisk monastery, where nearly 1,000 people had taken refuge, was the target of a shelling that injured at least 30 people, according to the Ukrainian prosecutor general’s office.

A little earlier, the head of the Dontesk military region, Pavlo Kirilenko, had indicated that a train carrying evacuees bound for Lviv, in the west, was bombed early Sunday morning, causing one death and one injury.

These localities are located in parts of the regions of Lugansk and of Donetsk that they were not part of the self-proclaimed pro-Russian separatist “republics” before the Russian invasion of Ukraine began on February 24.

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