Chilling video shows ‘savage thermite rain bomb’ fired by Russian soldiers

Chilling footage allegedly shows a thermite rain bomb hail down on the Donbas region in the east of Ukraine.

The video, believed to be captured by a Ukrainian soldier, appears to show the Russian bomb light up the night sky with a shower of thermite – a horrific concoction of aluminum powder and iron oxide that burns at a high temperature, which The Sun claims can "burn flesh down to the bone".

It is also reported the thermite bomb was fired by Russian grad launchers using 9M22S incendiary rockets.

If verified, this footage is evidence that Russian forces are using chemical weapons in Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.

The terrifying footage was posted on Twitter by the user @Harri_Est, the founder of Ukraine Aid Operation, who tweeted that the footage was sent to him by a friend in the National Guard unit in Donbas.

So far, the video has racked up more than 3million views and journalists and the general public alike have taken to Twitter to express their shock and revulsion at the use of the thermite rain bomb.

Alexandra Brzozowski, Global Europe and Defence Editor at Euractiv, tweeted: "Use of incendiary ammunition is banned under the 1980 Geneva Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (which #Russia signed and ratified btw). For a bloody good reason. It burns through steel, concrete and human bones at up to 2,500°C."

Another twitter user shared the footage and commented: "Every single dot of light here is a piece of thermite, an incendiary weapon that burns through steel, asphalt, concrete, and bones at well over 4,000 °F. Banned since the 1980 Convention on Conventional Weapons (Geneva), the last time it was used was in Syria".

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Ukrainian-based journalist Euan MacDonald wrote: "Horrifying rain of thermite from Russian Grad 9M22S incendiary rockets. Thermite burns at 3,000 C – through metal. Ukraine’s troops are facing some of the most savage, barbarous weapons ever devised. There’s no excuse not to quickly supply them with weapons to fight back with."

And another twitter user succinctly said: "This is fucking genocide #StandWithUkraine"

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