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About the butterfly mines the Russians dropped outside Mariupol to kill and injure fleeing civilians. A thread. 🧵
Once in 1986 in Peshawar, near the border of Afghanistan, when I was an alleged freelance journalist, a guy tossed a (deactivated) butterfly mine at my chest. 1/x

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