Ukraine Turns To AI-Controlled Guns To Stop Russian #Drones
Earlier Shaheds were equipped with warheads optimized to damage infrastructure, recent models are armed with #shrapnel #warheads & #ClusterMunitions in deliberate attempt to maximize #civilian #casualties
Radar-guided weapons function without human intervention. Plan is to raise $1.5mil for 10 turrets, enough for defensive coverage of a small city
Friday, May 2, 2025
Ukraine destroys 83,000 Russian targets using drones in April, Syrskyi says, up 8% on March — Delayed cluster munitions explode in Kyiv after Russian drone attack — Trump’s peace effort ignores thousands of Ukrainians still tortured in Russian captivity — Russia, North Korea building bridge to create ‘road of friendship’ — and more
https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/05/friday-may-2-2025/
Delayed cluster munitions explode in Kyiv
Delayed #ClusterMunitions exploded in a park area in Kyiv following overnight #Russian #drone attack on #Ukrainian capital
About 10 explosions were recorded near the park, with other blasts damaging roof of #residential building
Detonations likely stemmed from #cluster munitions scattered by Russian drones
#Russia is now using #drones to spread delayed #clustermunitions on populated areas, last night on residential neighborhoods of #Kyiv.
These submunitions are designed not only to kill but to terrorize—detonating not immediately, but minutes or even hours after impact.
▪️ Last night in Kyiv region, enemy UAVs released such #weapons. In Boryspil district, repeated explosions were reported in Malaya Oleksandrivka after a drone strike.
Monday, April 14 2025
The Kyiv Independent [unofficial] Russia’s war against Ukraine The aftermath of the Russian attack on Sumy that killed dozens on Palm Sunday on April 13, 2025. (State Emergency Service of Ukraine / Telegram) Russian strike kills at least 34, injures 117 in Sumy on Palm Sunday. A Russian missile strike killed at least 34 people in Ukraine's northeastern city of Sumy on the morning of Palm Sunday, Sumy Mayor Artem Kobzar reported on April 13. Ukraine's intelligence reveals Russian […]
While #Ukraine's partners severely limit defenses, #russia uses the opportunity to ramp up the slaughter of civilians.
A residential neighborhood in #Donetsk, full of sleeping families, targeted with #clustermunitions.
Many victims, most sleeping in their beds, including children.
Pure genocide: Drones hit Sumy with shrapnel munitions
“These weapons are used to kill people. Not to destroy structures, just to kill more people”
“Just as the previous missile strike [had] #ClusterMunitions, today again #drones [are] equipped with #shrapnel,” he added.
“The same goes for other strikes, in other places where private #homes were hit, people were injured and killed. This is pure #genocide.”
#Banks and financial institutions profiting from #weapons
By Clare Carlile
Friday 7th of April 2023
High street banks are funding some of the world’s most notorious #ArmsCompanies. We look at which banks are involved and what consumers can do. We also look at the wider financial industry and its links with #NuclearWeapons in particular.
How are banks financing the arms industry?
"Banks are behind almost every industry in the world, through their loans, insurance and other kinds of financing, including the arms industry.
"By funding arms companies, banks allow them to grow and innovate – developing new forms of #lethal weapons.
"In fact, banks are behind companies involved in the very worst forms of arms, such as nuclear weapons and #ClusterMunitions, despite the latter being banned by 120 countries.
"Unsurprisingly, arms companies are not generally picky about who they sell weapons to. This means that if a bank is funding an arms company, it may well be one that is selling to oppressive regimes.
Which banks are involved in financing arms companies?
"Unfortunately, many banks still finance arms companies.
"While some have said they will not fund the most destructive weapons, lots fall far short of refusing funding to arms companies altogether. And it is not just banks that are involved in the global arms trade. Lots of other financial institutions, such as investors, are also involved.
"Over three quarters of the brands included in our ethical current accounts guide lost half a mark under Arms & Military supply for their investments. This included all the five major high street banks: #Barclays, #HSBC, #Lloyds, #NatWest and #Santander.
"Banks such as Barclays, Lloyds, NatWest, Santander and #Citigroup, and other financial institutions such as #Aviva and #OldMutual have been named in relation to funding cluster munitions, nuclear weapons on the sale of arms to #Yemen.
What weapons are banks funding?
Banks funding cluster munitions
“Cluster munitions are indiscriminate weapons that pose a serious threat to civilian populations during and long after an attack. They spread dozens, or even hundreds, of bomblets called submunitions over an area the size of a football stadium or even more. On impact cluster munitions kill or maim anyone that is in that area. Also, many submunitions fail to explode on impact: they remain on the ground like landmines that kill and injure civilians long after the conflict has ended.'
"120 countries have signed a Convention that that bans the use, production, stockpiling and transfer of #ClusterBombs.
"Yet, in 2018, the Cluster Munition Coalition found that financial institutions had invested almost $9 billion in companies producing cluster munitions. Citigroup and Old Mutual were both found to invest in companies involved.
"Amongst the banks named in the report, Triodos, Co-operative Bank and Royal Bank of Scotland were all praised for having divestment policies in place.
"However, Aviva, Axa, Deutsche Bank, Edentree Investment Management, HSBC, Lloyds Banking Group, Bank of Scotland and Standard Chartered were all found to have incomplete policies in place."
https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/money-finance/banks-weapons
#WarIsBigBusiness #NoWar #WeaponsManufacturers #NoNuclearWeapons
Ukrainian Artillery Destroys Pontoon Bridge Across Seim River in Kursk
#PontoonBridgeStrike
#SeimRiverAttack
#UkrainianArtillery
#ClusterMunitions
#HIMARSStrike
#FPVDrones
#RussianBridgeDestruction
#KurskRegion
#usa : #military / #clustermunitions / #nato / #Contracttermination
(Alive and kicking!)
„NATO states should abandon treaty banning the use of cluster munitions“
#HumanRightsWatch's @marywareham
reports on the scoop on #ClusterMunitions by our German colleagues John Goetz and Lisa Maria Hagen and mentions the #WikiLeaks cables:
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/germany-ukraine-cluster-munitions/
The moment when Cluster munitions from the ATACMS is injuring and killing people on the beach in Sevastopol, Crimea couple a days ago.
#Sevastopol #Crimea #ATACMS #ClusterMunitions #Conflict #BreakingNews #Safety #Injury #Casualties
Russia Blames U.S. for ATACMS Missile Strike on Sevastopol, Vows Revenge
https://www.defensemirror.com/news/37110/Russia_Blames_U_S__for_ATACMS_Missile_Strike_on_Sevastopol__Vows_Revenge
#Russia #Ukraine #Sevastopol #ATACMS #MissileStrike #Crimea #USRussiaRelations #GlobalHawk #MilitaryConflict #InternationalRelations #DefenseNews #MilitaryDrones #Geopolitics #WarCrimes #PoliticalTensions #MilitaryTechnology #SevastopolAttack #ClusterMunitions #USForeignPolicy #InternationalLaw
Russia Blames U.S. for ATACMS Missile Strike on Sevastopol, Vows Revenge
https://www.defensemirror.com/news/37110/Russia_Blames_U_S__for_ATACMS_Missile_Strike_on_Sevastopol__Vows_Revenge
#Russia #Ukraine #Sevastopol #ATACMS #MissileStrike #Crimea #USRussiaRelations #GlobalHawk #MilitaryConflict #InternationalRelations #DefenseNews #MilitaryDrones #Geopolitics #WarCrimes #PoliticalTensions #MilitaryTechnology #SevastopolAttack #ClusterMunitions #USForeignPolicy #InternationalLaw
Nowhere have the choices been starker than in the discussion about #LandMines, as militaries weigh their low-cost ability to slow tanks & buy time for #NATO rescuers against the risk to generations of their own citizens. Mines come in many forms, but… once laid, can pose a hazard decades after a conflict ends. #Mines & other explosive remnants of #war killed or injured at least 12 #civilians A DAY globally in 2022, many of them #children, acc/to the Landmine & #ClusterMunitions Monitor.
#Ukraine
@armscontrolnow is polling for their Arms Control Person Of the Year (#ACPOY2023 ) until 11 January and you can still vote!
They’ve also had small toots about nominees but the link to the vote page hasn’t worked so check their profile, give them a follow, and vote. #ArmControl #ArmsControlAssociation
Among topics related… #BiologicalWeapons #ChemicalWeapons #ClusterMunitions #LethalAutonomousWeaponsSystems #NuclearWeapons
https://www.armscontrol.org/2023-12/2023-arms-control-persons-year-nominees
"Le forze governative siriane hanno utilizzato munizioni a grappolo ampiamente vietate in un attacco a #Termanin, una città nel nord di #Idlib, uccidendo 2 civili e ferendone altri 9."
#Siria #ClusterMunitions #HumanRights #PACE #Peace #NOwar #5novembre
https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/11/05/northwest-syria-government-uses-cluster-munitions
