Footage shows what appears to be deadly Russian incendiary shells falling on Ukraine's Petrivka in Kyiv on Wednesday.

Petrivka is the historical neighbourhood in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv.
One of six villages liberated by the Ukrainian military recently in the Kherson Oblast.

The purpose of incendiary munitions is to destroy enemy equipment and manpower through mass fires by producing intense, localized heat that triggers the symptomatic combustion of nearby flammable material and other objects.

However, the Protocol III of the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) forbids the use of incendiary weapons in regions with significant civilian populations because of the high humanitarian risks these weapons pose.

According to a 2020 Human Rights Watch report, incendiary weapons “inflict excruciating burns, sometimes to the bone, and can cause respiratory damage, infection, shock, and organ failure.”

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