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For example, in 2023, Russia reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZISFFQLoPMY\"><u>used<\/u><\/a> thermite bombs in eastern Ukraine over residential neighborhoods, according to a video on social media that was picked up by the Youtube channel of The Telegraph newspaper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dangers in using thermite include the possibility of causing out-of-control fires that risk burning down civilian infrastructure and non-military targets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The use of thermite munitions is not banned per say, but neither is it straightforward, experts say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt would be legitimate and legal to use them as defoliants to remove cover, and this holds unless they would a) hit civilians or b) there was a significant risk the subsequent fire would endanger civilians \u2013 contrast this with Russian use of thermite last year in an indiscriminate manner,\u201d Matthew Savill, 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