Explosive weapons

Washington's decision to give anti-personnel mines to Ukraine is the biggest blow yet to a landmark anti-mine treaty, its signatories said during a meeting.

Ukraine is a signatory to the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention which prohibits the use, stockpiling, production and transfer of landmines.

Since early September, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense and various bloggers have shared footage on social media of a new type of drone, known as the "dragon drone," in action. These drones have been shown releasing a thermite mixture—a combination of aluminum powder and iron oxide—over Russian positions hidden in forests.

A homemade explosive device went off at the entrance of an apartment building in the Ilioupoli district of southern Athens early Monday morning.

Two gas canisters were used in the pre-dawn blast in Louvari Street which caused material damage but no injuries.

The U.S. government on Wednesday announced what it said was the last remaining package of weapons available for Ukraine under existing authorization, with Congress now needing to decide whether to keep supporting Kiev's battle against Russian invasion.

“Our country will definitely have enough mines and concrete”

A homemade explosive device went off outside a houseware store reportedly owned by a Super League soccer referee in the western Athens suburb of Peristeri in the early hours of Thursday.

The explosion damaged its glass panels and caused a small fire which was put out by the fire brigade.

An army bomb disposal unit on Thursday neutralized a World War II 500lb bomb that was found in the southern Athenian suburb of Glyfada.

The army unit used thermite, a pyrotechnic composition of metal powder and metal oxide used, among others, to disable munitions without the use of explosive charges. 

The bombing of Yugoslavia with cluster munitions during the 1990s was an inhumane experiment by NATO countries, which demonstrated the real consequences of using such munitions on live individuals, she said in an interview with "Komsomolskaya Pravda".

Over two dozen unexploded artillery shells that were discovered on Istanbul's Şile coast have been disposed of, according to the Defense Ministry, which declared that the shells might be dating back to World War II.

Turkish underwater defence forces detonated more than 20 artillery shells on Turkey's Black Sea coast on Wednesday, after they were discovered lying in the sea near an Istanbul beach, state-run Anadolu agency reported.