The cruelest weapon in the war in Ukraine. “Death in torment”
The Russian army continues the spring offensive with unchanging fierceness, slowly, but systematically gaining more and more territories of Ukraine. Military experts expect that before the celebration of the anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany on May 9, Moscow will try enter the next region of Ukraine: Dnipropietrowska. In the long run, this can also threaten the West of the Country.
There are currently strong premises indicating Russian attacks towards sumssixth largest city of Ukraine, located in the north-eastern part of the country. Simultaneously Fighting in Donbas About Torećk, Czasiw Jar and Pokrowsk have recently intensified. There were also intense clashes again near the Zaporozhye. The losses of Russian soldiers are currently huge, but Ukraine can only delay Moscow's progress due to the lack of soldiers and air defense.
“Despite the high -profile declarations about the readiness to suspend fire in May, the occupiers significantly increased the intensity of the fights,” said the commander -in -chief of the Ukrainian army of Oleksandr Syrski. A spokesman for the President of Russia Dmitry Pieskov retorted: “What we do – a special military operation, all Putin's decisions – is absolutely correct. And our duty is to win.”
According to Pieskowa, peace in Ukraine is not possible as soon as the United States wants. Russian president Vladimir Putin apparently plays on time And he counts on the fact that Kiev's forces will be tired, and Moscow will be able to improve her negotiating position by acquiring subsequent territories.
Fighting will therefore last for an indefinite time. A weapon will still be used, against which soldiers and civilians have no chance. The biggest threat on the battlefield is now drones, which make nobody safe at the day or at night.
“War is hell” – writes in his valued analyzes a military expert colonel Markus Reisner, who works for the Austrian Ministry of Defense and is the highest officer instructor at the Terezjan Military Academy. At the request of the newspaper “Die Welt” he exchanged Five cruelest weaponswhich were used since the beginning of the war in February 2022.
Dragon drones
This weapon, also called a throne, reminds Napalm used by the Americans during the Vietnam war. Both sides use these models, preferably in narrow forests that provide protection for tanks and artillery. Bunkers are often built between the trees.
– In this case, drones work like Flying flamethresses And they kill with incendants that are dropped or sprayed – says Reisner. The drone is equipped with up to 40 kg of termitte, a mixture of aluminum and rust granules, which can reach a temperature of up to 2.4 thousand. st. C.
During the flight, the drone sprays burning metal to enemy positions. It not only burns leaves, shrubs and masking nets, depriving protection of protection soldiers, but also penetrates through bunkers and armor. Termit causes serious or fatal burns to soldiers.
Flechette ammunition
– special grenades have combat heads consisting of thousands of small arrowswhich cause destructive surface effects from which there is no escape – explains the expert. Flechette ammunition (from the French “arrow”) is currently rarely used, but it was certainly used in the war in Ukraine: for example, in the Ukrainian Bucza -irpień region. According to forensic medicine doctors, many victims of the massacre had tiny metal arrows in their heads and torso. This weapon can lead to a very slow death and cause great suffering.
Russian attack on the Donetsk circuit, March 2025.
The fired navy blue explodes above the ground, launching about 8,000 arrows with small wings at the end. They are about 3 cm long. According to “The Washington Post” The black cloud of arrows can cover the area of three football fields.
Due to the high speed, even protective vests and helmets pierce the arrows. They usually bend on the body or crack, often causing two wound channels. The arrow also draws fragments of clothing or wound protective equipment, which further increases pain and reduces the chances of survival.
Vampire drones
– Drones equipped with grenades and thermal imaging cameras are looking for goals in the dark And they fight them by dropping loads – explains Reisner. This Ukrainian drone, also called “Baba Jaga” (in Slavic mythology an old woman who eats children) or “vampire drone”, has six rotors and various infrared cameras. Years at 80 km per hour. And it can cover a distance of up to 10 km, as well as carry rocket heads or faces weighing up to 15 kg.
Drones, which are largely resistant to noise, detect enemy positions at night, in total darkness, and are used especially against armored vehicles, military infrastructure and ammunition warehouses. Russian soldiers call this type of drones extremely effective from the point of view of Ukraine “nightmare of the night”.
Tos fire brootors
Russian flameblberries TOS-1 and TOS-2 destroy bunkers, tunnels and other well-secured shelters for soldiers. Earlier they were used in Syria and Chechnya. Within a few seconds, a rocket launcher mounted on a tank or truck fires approx. 30 rockets. Each of them has so -called a thermobaric head filled with a chemical, deanery or aluminum dust.
The explosion causes the uprising first huge shock wave and fire ball. Because it uses oxygen from the air, it leads to the formation of vacuum. Therefore, in the context of fire brootters, the term “vacuum bomb” is used.
Action of the Ukrainian army, April 2025.
“All people die in the area of flames. They also experience victims internal and often invisible injurieseardrum and internal organs are bursting, “writes the CIA.” Due to the huge explosion strength and fire, it is not possible to survive, “Reisner notes.
Drones with a view from the first person
Observation drones provide In real time, data on the movement of hostile soldiers or vehicles To the pilot, which is located many kilometers away, is activated by a second deadly ship and controls it himself – as in a video game, but in this case people die in a cruel way.
– The battlefield has become completely transparent. Soldiers are chased by drones, mutilated, and eventually killed – says Reisner. Most soldiers do not die right away, but they are seriously injured and slowly die of helplessness. Drones can also fly into shelters, trenches and houses, where they kill people.
Recently, Reisner showed a film in which a soldier was running around a small wooden power pole for a few minutes, trying to escape from a loud buzzing drone. The military moved alternately forward and backward, hugging every now and then to the pole, until he was completely exhausted. Then a small drone, which almost nothing weighs, threw himself at the soldier and ripped his body to shreds.
According to Reisner, the existence of these drones and the characteristic sounds they make, cause soldiers continuous stressbecause they can be caught at any time. There are many cases when the military quickly committed suicide when the drone approached them. They were afraid that otherwise they would be seriously wounded and die in torture.
