Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] The British edition of The Guardian publishes the results of a forensic medical examination of the bodies found in Irpen and Buche.
- Judging by them, those people whom the experts managed to examine were killed not by bullets, but by fragments of anti-personnel shells. That is, they were killed during shelling.
The publication writes that small metal darts called flechettes were found in the bodies of the victims.
"We found some very thin, nail-like objects in the bodies of men and women," Ukrainian forensic scientist Vladislav Perovsky told the Guardian. According to him, most of these bodies are from the Bucha-Irpensky district.
The flechette is an anti-personnel weapon that was widely used during the First World War. They are contained in the shells of tanks or field guns. Each ammunition can contain up to 8000 of these "nails". After a shot and an explosion, they scatter to a width of up to 300 meters and 100 in length.
Such ammunition is not prohibited by conventions. But their use in cities is a violation of humanitarian law.
The publication cites unnamed witnesses who saw Russian artillery firing such shells a few days before leaving the area.
Photography experts have determined that such "darts" are used in the 122mm ZSh-1 projectile.
We add that this projectile is suitable for the D-30 howitzer, which is in service with both the Russian Federation and Ukraine.
All of a sudden, the Russian Armed Forces controlled Bucha until the end of March, when they withdrew from there as part of the withdrawal of troops from the Chernihiv and Kiev regions.
As you might guess, shelling a city controlled by your own troops is a bad idea.
However, this does not negate the fact that the Ukrainians killed people with white armbands, which was highlighted in one of the videos.