Russian troops have left behind bombs hidden in car trunks, washing machines, and dead bodies in ravaged Ukrainian cities, according to Ukrainian officials.
According to the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Russia's attacks on civilians went far beyond shelling, with officials saying they uncovered booby traps throughout the cities.
The Russian Federation is in a war with the Ukrainian armed forces and is also fighting against the civilian population of the country.
According to The New York Times, a man was killed after opening the trunk of a car. The car exploded after being booby-trapped.
Valeria told The Times that she died with him.
The 1997 treaty banning anti-personnel mines was signed by most countries and excludes the United States.
The UN has called for regulations on anti-vehicle mines, which have been used by both sides.
According to The Times, Denys Monastyrsky, the interior minister of Ukraine, said in an interview on Sunday that there are other booby traps, often in the form of landmines or jury-rigged bombs, under hospital beds and corpses.
In a video address on Tuesday, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that his country was one of the most contaminated by mines in the world.
Zelenskyy claimed that Russian soldiers were ordered to kill as many people as possible in order to be called war crimes.
The Ukrainian emergency services agency was forced to send a bomb squad of hundreds to find bombs in liberated cities after Human Rights Watch claimed that Russian troops in Kharkiv had used mines.
On Tuesday, the organization said that since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine on February 24, it has found over 54,000 bombs.
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