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Originally posted by Crom Valen: ↑

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidh...it&utm_medium=twitter&sh=7b91d4f01a32

Mar 10, 2022,05:43am EST
Russia Reportedly Blocks Ukrainian Evacuation Route With Air-Dropped ‘Butterfly Mines’
David Hambling

Early on in the invasion of Ukraine, Ukrainian officials claimed that the Russians were using PFM-1 air-dropped anti-personnel mines. Also known as ‘butterfly mines,’ 'petals,' ‘green parrots,’ or even ‘Soviet toys of death’ these small plastic munitions, each weighing less than two ounces, are scattered by the thousand over a wide area. They are now reported to have been dropped to block evacuation routes out of Mariupol. Surprisingly enough, butterfly mines have their origin in the U.S.; these munitions originally designed to stop supply convoys are now known for maiming children.
The PFM-1 does not look like a mine. It is plastic, five inches across and an inch high, with asymmetric wings to glide to the ground like a sycamore seed without a parachute. Inside the soft plastic skin is a detonator and a quantity of liquid explosive. The detonator is triggered by cumulative deformation of the plastic skin: either a single event such as a vehicle running over it, or a series of smaller events such as handling.

Russian PFM-1 Butterfly mine from the teaching collection of the Bundeswehr training ground.
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The mines come in several colors, including the bright green version which gave it the ‘green parrot’ nickname. Lying by the road, it might be a toy bird or airplane. In Afghanistan, where literally millions were dropped, they were often picked up by children.
“In Afghanistan my co-workers and I were told several times that a child had taken the butterfly — or "green parrot," as the Afghans call it — and played with it for hours with friends before any explosion occurred,” wrote Dr Gino Strada, a surgeon with the International Committee of the Red Cross who has treated mine victims in Afghanistan, Cambodia and northern Iraq, in a piece for PBS.

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", Ukrainian officials claimed "

It is just claimed . This claim doesn't even come with fake pictures.
Where are the real pictures or maybe every Ukrainians phone mysteriously stops working just when they happen across the various cluster munitions that are littering the Ukrainian countryside.

Trump claims the election was stolen , maybe you believe him.
These fake claims are as fake as the stolen election and as fake as WMD's .
Fake news from the fake news poster.
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