What are the vacuum bombs that Russia would be using in its war against Ukraine?

With continuous attacks from one side to the other within the context of the war between Russia and Ukraine, in recent hours the latter have accused the former of using thermobaric bombs, also known as vacuumwhich would be a serious war crime as they are prohibited by the Geneva Convention.

From 1864 to 1950, as a result of the First and Second World Wars, up to four agreements were signed in the city of Geneva (Switzerland) that regulate what is today the international human law. A series of rules that seek to protect the victims of armed conflicts and that in the case of conflicts such as the one being waged by Russia and Ukraine, their respect is essential, in order, among other issues, not to massacre defenseless civilians.

Something that for Ukraine would be violating Russia through vacuum pumps. A weapon created at the end of the 20th century and that seeks extract oxygen of an area to create a great explosion that drowns the living beings present and can even vaporize human bodies.

Russia has already used these vacuum bombs in other wars

The Ukrainian ambassador in Washington, Oksana Markarovahas been the last great personality to denounce this fact, which is considered a war crimethus joining media such as CNN, The Guardian, The Telegraph or even International Amnesty. According to them, for a few days Russian troops have been witnessing TOS-1 missile launchercapable of loading these thermobaric bombs.

And it is that in the last 40 years Russia has been demonstrating that it has this weapon in its arsenal and that is how I used it in the Soviet Union war in Afghanistan in the 80’s or two Chechen wars to bring this region under his control now. In addition, in February 2020 the state agency RT released a video in which vehicles could be seen carrying out military maneuvers armed with up to 24 vacuum shells.

How does a vacuum pump work?

Having even the largest specimen in the world, which was tested in 2007 and was baptized with the name of ‘father of all bombs‘, in response to the ‘Mother of all bombs’ that the United States devised in 2003, these vacuum pumps have a mechanism that is as simple as it is deadly.

Being able to be used both in open and closed spaces, they are made up of two explosive charges that spread a cloud of fuel that mixes with oxygen and then detonate this fuel It consumes the oxygen and creates the feeling of emptiness through the high temperature explosion. It is with this phenomenon that oxygen is extracted, which leads to suffocation or incineration of humans close to the detonation.