“Found these in the Zaporizhzhya direction. The enemy is throwing chocolates with an explosive mechanism. Do not open them under any circumstances. Our guy was lucky that it did not detonate, otherwise he could have ended up crippled. I know guys whose fingers were torn off like that.”
Come into my country, you get what you get.
Ukrainians are accusing Russia of the same thing. Plus ya know… Russia is literally poisoning water supplies
Fuck russia.
Mirror + bandaid + paperclip + packing tape = boom? It’s like a bad 80s tv show.
That does seem like something that would violate some rules-of-war convention.
Booby-trapping something that might be mistaken by civilians as a legitimate humanitarian aid drop risks non-combatant casualties and makes it harder for actual aid operations to operate.
Ah, this reminds the time when cluster munitions were bright yellow, so you could spot them and stay away.
And food aid packages were bright yellow, so you could spot them and easily collect them.
Yeah…
If it is something they’re actually doing, I agree. But this image looks like a crafts project gone wrong. Are we supposed to believe that the bit a the bottom is like, high explosive or something and that tiny wire is the primer?
Why would non-combatants be in the trenches?
Explosives don’t seem smart. Why didn’t they poison the chocolate instead? The enemy opens the chocolate, sees nothing wrong with it, shares it with their mates, and then now you’ve got five casualties who are none the wiser. Is that against the rules of war or something?
Poisoning food or water or employing poison in food in warfare violates a buttload of relevant treaties and laws. Venom, poison, overly lethal gases, even spreading disease are pretty big no-nos, the goal isn’t to cause indiscriminate or agonizing deaths
Willy Wonka sends his regards
Why bother with chocolate at all? Just wrap c4 in a Freddo wrapper.
Thats at best a gps chip lol
I agree the round disc and deliberately folded wire screams something to do with RF, but a) how powered and for how long? and b) why a chocolate bar if so?
It’s not like they hid a transmitter inside something that wouldn’t be taken apart or eaten, this was going to get discovered. Sneak a transmitter inside a PKM or radio, then let it be “captured” by the Russians.
a) how powered and for how long?
Might even be passive, a tuned resonator. Heck it could be a bug, IIRC ironically passive bugs are (age-old) soviet tech. Imagine sweeping the whole frequency spectrum for resonators with 50s tech they were a nightmare to screen for.
and b) why a chocolate bar if so?
Maybe the idea is to track people for some time to gather intelligence on trench operations? Most probably aren’t going to eat the thing right away.
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Nice Halloween touch…victory to Ukraine. LOL, if vodka bottles were used…
Send more weapons! Allow use on military targets in russia!
Yeah, this definitely looks like airdropped chocolate to me bro.
