Thermobaric Weapons News Today

a warm welcome to our viewers joining us from the united states and all around the world. im paula newton. ahead on "cnn newsroom," the u.s. and canada authorized the takedown of a third high-altitude object in recent days, but just what was it? even as the death toll in syria and turkey climbs, officials are looking for answers. why did so many buildings crumble? ukraine says it shot down 20 drones from iran during a russian attack. ahead, a live report from kyiv. >> live from c...

Thermobaric flamethrowers are formidable and fearsome weapons that Ukrainian troops see in their nightmares. They inflict devastating damage and are target number one for Ukrainian drones.

The Russian Defense Ministry has released a video showing TOS-1A Solntsepyok striking Ukrainian troops in the Avdeedka direction.

The Prosecutor General of Ukraine announced this information.

Thermobaric weapons are considered to be the second most dangerous after nuclear bombs but Vladimir Putin's Russia is not hesitating from using them in the war with Ukraine.

Forces in that part of syria that has worked. that is as far as i can go on that. let me go to the phones here. i havent gotten to anybody. "new york times." >> today at the emergency special session of the united nations general assembly, u.s. ambassador linda thomas-greenfield said that vacuum bombs are banned. and also i assume she meant fuel air explosives or other forms of thermobaric weapons. so what is the status on the review of the policy and can you say whether the pentagon believes th...

Watch by going online to foxnation.com to begin a free trial. all right, big concerns over the types of bombs russia may be dropping in ukraine. national security correspondent jennifer griffin is live from the pentagon. what can you tell us at this hour, jennifer? >> sandra, we talked to a senior u.s. official who did confirm they had seen evidence of thermobaric weapons, they have not seen they have been used, but they are known as vacuum bombs. more devastating and conventional explosives a...

What we are going to see is that escalation in fighting, and in the intensity of -- of the fighting and the brutality of the use of long-rangef firepowe directly against kyiv before the russians attempt to seize kyiv, itself. >> in -- in a traditional-military sense, we -- we know, as you point out, what putin is capable of from what happened in chechnya and in syria. you know, do -- do you think that there is about to be a potentially ferocious escalation in kyiv? i am talking about mechanized ...

Ukraine? separately, have you assessed the russians used thermobaric weapons? >> no. what im talking about is the proposal of the mig-29s. sovereign nations are deciding to make decisions about security assistance to ukraine and they have that right to do that and not our place to speak for them. we felt it was important with a transfer of u.s. custody that we believed it was important to lay flat the concerns about that and thats what we have done here. david? >> on the order to deploy patriots...

Thermobaric weapons, sometimes called vacuum bombs, use powdered metal to create a rapidly expanding fireball. Under international law, they must only be used against military targets, not civilians.