Such attacks can look like 'fireworks' but could in fact be dangerous incendiary weapons, experts warn, which burn at around 2,000 degrees Celsius and cause excruciatingly painful burns to the skin.
"They're different from chemical weapons, in they that they operate through heat and flame, not through their toxicity."
Lukas Andriukaitis, a non-resident fellow at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, said these munitions "have chemicals inside that upon detonation burn for prolonged periods of time and are very hard to put out".Human Rights Watch has tracked more than 30 social media videos which they determined showed active incendiary weapon attacks across Ukraine, including in Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kyiv, Luhansk, and Mykolaiv oblasts.
Mr Andriukaitis said while it's impossible to be 100 per cent sure judging by a video alone, some footage he has seen in Ukraine was typical of incendiary munitions he had reported on in Syria, Ukraine and Nagorno-Karabakh.Both Dr Miron and Mr Andriukaitis suspected some attacks could have involved thermite, which burns at 2,000 degrees Celsius, although they cautioned that it was difficult to know for sure.
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