National Review BY JIM GERAGHTY
On the menu today: As of this writing, it is not 100 percent definitive that Russian military forces have used thermobaric weapons in Ukraine, but those weapons are indisputably deployed on Ukrainian soil, and reporters in Kyiv are describing explosions powerful and bright enough to light up the night sky, like lightning; human-rights groups keep gathering evidence of Russia using cluster bombs and hitting civilian targets such as schools and kindergartens; meanwhile, Russians bid farewell to the stock market, and a Russian finance professor foresees widespread economic calamity overtaking his native country.
Russia’s Thermobaric Rage
On Saturday, a CNN team south of Belgorod, Russia, near the Ukrainian border, reported that it had seen a Russian thermobaric multiple-rockets launcher. Thermobaric rockets “are filled with high-temperature, high-pressure explosive. They are sometimes called ‘vacuum bombs’ because they suck in the oxygen from the surrounding air to generate a powerful explosion and a large pressure wave that can have enormous destructive effects.” …
