Gasoline bomb for driving! Moment, brave Ukrainians throw Molotov cocktails at a Russian tank from the window of a passing car after the fierce government handed out a DIY flyer on how to make weapons
- The footage shows a home-made weapon fired directly at an armored vehicle
- The call for action was sent via the Twitter page of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine last week
- He called on residents to make Molotov cocktails to “neutralize the occupier” in Kyiv
This is the moment when the brave Ukrainians throw Molotov cocktails at a Russian tank from the window of a passing car.
Remarkable footage shows people in the car shouting swear words at Putin’s forces before a woman threw a home-made weapon directly at the armored car.
Another angle shows the consequences of the accident, in which flames can be seen erupting from the tank as vehicles pass on a two-way lane.
Remarkable footage shows people in the car shouting curses at Putin’s forces before a woman throws a homemade weapon directly at the armored car
Another angle shows the consequences of an accident in which flames can be seen erupting from the tank as vehicles pass on a two-way lane.
The official website of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine shared a flyer on how to make a Molotov cocktail
It gave detailed instructions on how to make the DIY gas bomb and suggested throwing it at Russian tanks and trucks. They are illegal to manufacture in the UK under the Explosives Act
Illegal petrol bombs believed to have been invented by the Finns: What are Molotov cocktails?
Molotov cocktail is a generic name given to gasoline bombs.
Also known as the Poor Grenade, due to their relative ease of manufacture, they are improvised incendiary weapons, including flammable liquids placed in glass bottles.
The name was coined by the Finns during their war with Soviet Russia in 1939 – also known as the Winter War.
They are believed to have been called Molotov as a humiliating reference to Vyacheslav Molotov because of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, a deal between Russia and Nazi Germany that saw Poland divided between the two countries and Finland in the Soviet “sphere of influence.”
However, they were used before the Winter War, especially in the Spanish Civil War three years earlier.
General Franco is said to have ordered his nationalist troops to use them against Soviet tanks.
Many of them were made by people in Britain in the 1940s, when the threat of invading Nazi Germany loomed.
They are often used in riots and uprisings and as such have become a symbol of revolution.
But they are illegal to manufacture in the UK under the Explosives Act.
In recent days, civilians have been encouraged to make their own petrol bombs, with President Zelenski’s government even handing out a leaflet with instructions he made himself.
Publication of the checked Twitter page of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine last week he said: “To Obolon … We ask the citizens to inform about the movement of equipment!
“Make Molotov cocktails, neutralize the occupier!” Civilians – beware! Don’t leave the house!
More footage over the weekend showed hundreds of civilians of all ages making weapons as part of efforts to arm themselves against Russian attackers.
The report of Sky News from Dnipro showed a crowd of people who shred polystyrene and put it in bottles.
The idea is then for the substance to make the cocktail stick to vehicles and other purposes.
The weapons were manufactured according to a recipe circulated by the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense.
The name of the Molotov cocktail was coined by the Finns during their war with Soviet Russia in 1939 – also known as the Winter War.
They are believed to have been called Molotov as a humiliating reference to Vyacheslav Molotov because of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, a deal between Russia and Nazi Germany that saw Poland divided between the two countries and Finland in the Soviet “sphere of influence.”
However, they were used before the Winter War, especially in the Spanish Civil War three years earlier.
General Franco is said to have ordered his nationalist troops to use them against Soviet tanks.
Many of them were made by people in Britain in the 1940s, when the threat of invading Nazi Germany loomed.
They are often used in riots and uprisings and as such have become a symbol of revolution.
But they are illegal to manufacture in the UK under the Explosives Act.
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